Where the Owl Sleeps
The exhibition "Where the owl sleeps", by Froiid, has football and its rules as its theme. Through geometric figures scratched into wood and painted under the pretext of representing football pitches, the exhibition presents much more than a deformed reality, contrary to the laws of a known game. Football is brought back into everyday life, through its representation in “peteleco”, elevating the game to a level in which the decision of which rule to follow is negotiated between those who play.
The representation of football transformed into raw material reveals new geometries, new colors and new rules for a popular game. Froiid transmutes the aesthetic dimension present in a game recalling the diverse experiences in the field of art, from the avant-garde in the 20th century. He dialogues concretely with futurists, dadaists, surrealists, CoBrA and other groups and movements. It recalls the relationship between the game and the human being, which brings to play a way of passing time, of getting to know space, of superimposing realities, of living and building life in community.
In the process of manufacturing the fields, the artist brings new fields with different rules. These rules overlap each other and suspend the hegemony of football as a sport whose greatest expression is outside the "four lines". The recovery of football for everyday life begins when one chooses to play the game without an external player. The exhibition presents a way of doing this by creating several rules and, consequently, your way of playing, your own spaces and times. From the pieces presented, nothing prevents the visitor from creating a new application for the rules present in each work in a space of their choice.
In this exhibition, Froiid gives a light tap with one of the fingers of his hand. A possible flick that is contrary to dominance and hegemony over a game. He does so by multiplying the rules of play. In this way, he rescues the game in the forms on display here and does not produce new hegemonic discourses. Froiid presents the magical, free and changeable character that every game brings with it and, thus, recalls its experimentation in everyday life, when they are at the service of those who play them, resulting in a construction that can be truly collective.
Pablo Gobira
Curator
