Gers’ artistic practice includes installations and works that make use of text, drawing, and publications to explore the relationship between the body, movement, and language. The Same Ground was created on the ground using letters, fragments of letters, symbols, and signs that function as temporary sheet music that moves between language and gestures. Taking into account Tabakalera’s building and history, the cyclical rhythms of the temporary space that it runs through, and the artworks around it, the piece requires movement to be seen and read. It can be approached from various angles, without a set orientation, causing slips in the linear structure of language and time.
During the exhibition, local theorists, writers, and artists will be invited to experience their own “reading” of the work. Each reading will be documented and presented as a leaflet, and these leaflets will be collected into a publication of readings/writings at the end of the showing.
