
A jacket, a t-shirt, watches. For her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Un Cuerpo al que Volver / A Body to Come Back to, Aimée Zito Lema took stories, objects and events from her own history and that of her family in Argentina as a starting point. From that personal perspective, she investigates how history is shaped and passed on from one generation to the next, in order to reflect on the present. In this emphatic intertwining of past and present, new perspectives are made visible.
Aimée Zito Lema has a multimedia practice and works with sculpture, performance, video, archival material and installations. Photography is the central medium in this exhibition. She focuses on topics that concern memory, especially memory addressed through the body. Her interest is in the physicality of images and the mix of personal and political implications of (photographic) images. The objects she used for this presentation relate to themes such as birth, death and time.Un Cuerpo al que Volver / A Body to Come Back to focuses on the human body, but paradoxically it is the absent body that appears as the main ‘character’. A T-shirt, a jacket, a watch: they silently remind us of the people who were connected to them.