GLASS ON TOP OF THE FRIDGE

 

    image courtesy ©Isabel Quintanilla. VEGAP, Madrid, 2024

The glass rests on the refrigerator, and the resting itself becomes a cathedral. Isabel Quintanilla, in 1971, with pencil on paper (48 × 36.5 cm), reveals the trembling of existence through this vessel, balanced above the humming body of a machine, announcing our secret arrangement with time. 

The kitchen, republic of the ordinary, is lifted into a strange metaphysics: the glass hovers between utility and abandonment, transparency and silence. Madrid then carried its bruises of shadow; still, here glimmers a clear cylinder of possibility. 

Quintanilla whispers with pencil strokes so exact they feel like memory dressed as eternity. The refrigerator exhales, an exhausted sentinel, while the glass gleams as though it were a promise never spoken aloud. This work breathes still being. A lesson disguised as a domestic accident. The smallest things, an unattended glass, a forgotten perch, sustain the unbearable weight of our longing to endure.