Topographies of Memory
Carla Abilés, Paula Punto
A dialogue between Carla Abilés and Paula Punto approaching memory as a territory in constant transformation.
Topographies of Memory brings together two practices that engage with displacement, materiality, and embodied experience. Curated by Ayelén Ruiz, the exhibition unfolds as a dialogue between Carla Abilés and Paula Punto through textiles, archives, writing, and performance, approaching memory as a territory in constant transformation.
Carla Abilés works across textile practices and research-based processes, exploring collective memory, migration, and material knowledge rooted in the Global South. Paula Punto develops a multidisciplinary practice spanning performance, photography, and writing, where personal experience becomes a site for political and historical inquiry.
What do we carry with us when we move? How does memory take shape in the body, in materials, in language?
Public programme
- Vernissage — 9 April, 18:00–21:00
- Performance Day — 12 April: PROMESERA by Flor Cualquiera and UNHEIMLICH by Paula Punto
- Poetry Workshop — 18 April: El único fuego que no se extingue by Sol Narváez
- Artist Talk — 20 April, with the artists and curator, in the framework of Art Intensive Berlin (AIB)
Credits
Topographies of Memory is a Berlin-based project by Karne Kunst gUG, under the artistic direction of Marcela Villanueva . It was supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and presented at Bardo Projektraum, Berlin.