CCS BARD

Artists: Narcisa Hirsch, Luiz Roque, Rosario Zorraquín

Right now I’m not there focuses on the process of bringing inner aspects of oneself to the surface. Drawing from video, sculpture, and painting, the works of Narcisa Hirsch, Luiz Roque, and Rosario Zorraquín explore what happens when fragmented inner worlds are shaped through visual media and brought into our public world. Influenced by the idea of what French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan termed “extimacy,” where our seemingly most intimate elements come to feel radically alien to us, the exhibition reveals the strangeness and discomfort of sharing what is most personal—and the trouble we might have with recognizing what we find.

Through conversation, projection, and fantasy, the artists render visible—yet not fully comprehensible—their interiorities or those of others. Zorraquín’s translucent, sculptural paintings act as silent records of conversations she refers to as “readings,” where the body fades, but emotional exchanges persist. Through her experimental film, developed over three decades, Hirsch points to the disorienting feeling of being confronted with our own image and failing to fully recognize it. Roque’s film captures the atmosphere of the nighttime landscape of Buenos Aires, engaging with the city’s architecture and the highly personal moments that play out in its streets and private spaces after dusk. This exhibition explores how their works translate emotional traces and psychological imprints into tangible, shared forms.

The three artists use different mediums to bring to the surface what often remains unseen, working with screens, layers, and filters to mediate the relationship between the viewer, the space, the process, and their works. The personal appears unfamiliar through fragmented forms, creating an uncanny feeling—an alienness or otherness—that we find in the very space where we think we can access what is most intimate.

Related Programming:
Public Reading by Rosario Zorraquín
Thursday, May 15, 1:00 pm
CCS Bard Entry Gallery

The practice of Rosario Zorraquín encompasses a series of exercises and rituals driven by a keen interest in spirituality, psychoanalysis and unorthodox therapeutic paths and forms of healing. For several years, Zorraquín has been working on an ongoing project, Glosario, in which she compulsively transforms everyday life into symbols—a language shaped by emotional substance. Through this process, she invites collaborators from her affective world to reinterpret these symbols, encouraging them to translate the images that come to mind, often resulting in visions with the clarity of lucid dreams.

Through a process she calls readings, Zorraquín establishes an intimate exchange of trust, time, and experience with her guests and collaborators. She creates a space for exploring the other’s inner world by wrapping the participant in fabric—an element that serves as both a physical and symbolic filter. After these sessions, the traces on the gauze, on their skin, and a recording, remain.

Zorraquín will present a live performance, a public reading, offering a rare glimpse into her practice. Within the exhibition space, surrounded by past works generated through previous readings, she will guide a participant through a shared moment of introspection and interpretation.