Provenance

The edge of the Hole is the Back of a Cave’ by Armando Andrade Tudela (b. 1975, Lima, Peru) is composed of a textile piece and a series of black and white photographs. The two elements represent what the artist came to regard as ‘haunted architecture’, namely the constructions of somatic spaces were traces as in the photographs.

The textile is a floor plan of sorts in which the central color field become ‘sieged’ by the external almost monolithic walls. Originally conceived as a color chart, this piece introduces the idea of space compressed and asphyxiated, almost disciplinary in its rigidity and form. In doing this, the artists evoques the psychosis of confined spaces and its relationships with violence.

The photographs document a pavilion-size architectural structure realized by the artist himself. Built as a series of interconnect- ed transitional spaces, this labyrinth–like structure was originally thought of as a film set. By documenting the abandoned spaces the artist seeks to recuperate the traces and left overs of past activity, stuffing the images with a sense of suspended time.

In combining both representations together, the artists seek to evoke the complex and inter-dependent relation between rep- resentation, structure and the conditioning of human behavior.