Limen
Sala Consulado del Mar, Diputación de Burgos
Burgos, Spain
Feb 2022
In February 2022 the work Padrenuestro travelled to the Sala Consulado del Mar, part of the Diputación de Burgos, in the region where Sara’s father was born. The exhibition, titled Limen, brought her together with her brother, Javier Alonso, and the two siblings showed side by side around a shared idea: the threshold as a space in between. The theme suited Padrenuestro, a work that already lived between presence and absence, between the intimacy of the home and the public gallery, between Glasgow and Spain, between a grief postponed and a farewell finally made.
During the pandemic, lockdown had kept Sara far from her father and from the place where he lived. Showing the work in Burgos meant that the pieces she had made in isolation, with his photographs and her own images fused in wax and cyanotype, could at last go to him. The private ceremony from her flat and the darkroom of the Glasgow Print Studio became a homecoming, closing the distance the pandemic had imposed.
Today the installation and all its pieces rest in the attic of her parents’ home, kept within the family, close to the house that first shaped it.
