Super Important / Very Important / The Most Important, 2023
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Someone has underlined a word written on the wall of a building on my street. An attempt to draw attention and highlight something that should be important. I don’t know if it is still important or if the person who underlined it remembers what was important.
It is so heavily underlined that it must have been very important. Other words are underlined too.
There are so many important words that it is difficult to recognize which one is the most important.
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The work Very Important, consists of various lines and squiggles either shining in ceramic glaze or written on translucent fabric, casting their dark shadow on the white surface. While decisive in their execution, the squiggly lines evoke the feeling of a test run, a trial of some sort.
Squiggles are short lines that curl and loop in an irregular way. Graffiti, the medium that Patricia Sandonis borrows from and addresses in this work, is, due to the structure of the law, almost always done in haste.
Traditionally, utilized as a political tool by causing an irregularity in the urban landscape. Often placed risky or at a height, it attempts to overarch or title the mundane. When reaching a certain degree of density, as in the case of Berlin, it might lose focus.
If everything is important, then what is?
On the wall, Sandonis has given corporeality to the usually flat lines by making them into ceramic sculptures. They don’t underline the importance, but hold their own. And they do so, individually, as much as collectively. The work assembles into a larger image, in which the viewer can choose which part to focus on, letting their eye wander over the strokes to find their own meaning.
Cleo Wächter & Lusin Reinsch
Excerpt from the curatorial text for the exhibition “Uncertainty in Consensus”
Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid, 2025
