Jorge Peris
Jorge Peris: Permafrost
Installation View
Nicodim Annex, Los Angeles
Jorge Peris: Permafrost
Installation View
Nicodim Annex, Los Angeles
Jorge Peris: Permafrost
Installation View
Nicodim Annex, Los Angeles
Salty tears song
Upon the brink of an impending tide,
The sea, with fervor, claims its pure domain,
Plic plic, a dance, the waves do confide,
A liquid dirge, a world consumed in vain.
In feast, a mirth, in revelry they dwell,
As waters rise, unheeding hearts astray,
Plic plic, droplets weave a mournful spell,
A song of despair, a trembling array.
Yet in this flood, the spirits stir unseen,
Ancestral whispers on the ocean breeze,
Calling forth memories, a spectral sheen,
Their voices echo through the drowning seas.
Salt, the purifier, in tears will be embraced,
As the world dissolves, a new one to be faced.
— Gian Andrea Poletta fed ChatGPT this prompt: “Hey ChatGPT, could you help me write a Sonnet? It’s about the end of the world, the rise of the seas, a carefree feast, about the spirit of our ancestors and the salt as purifier. Ah, please use the words: Plic Plic. Lastly, could you please help me with the title, I need it to sound slightly ironic.”
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
— The Bible: King James Version, Judges 9:45.
Permafrost, Jorge Peris’s second solo exhibition with Nicodim, is an invocation of the apocalypse, a prayer sowed with salty tears. Relics of human existence populate the gallery: colored glasses are festively stacked in memoriam of some long-evacuated party; slightly knotted and twisted ropes hang themselves from the ceiling, would-be nooses whose accompanying necks disintegrated in an undefined past. Crystalized salt unifies it all into one cohesive sculpture, a monument to an Earth that once was.
Jorge Peris (born Alzira, Valencia, 1969) lives and works in El Palmar, Valencia, and Bucharest, Romania. Recent exhibitions include Permafrost, Nicodim Annex, Los Angeles (2024, solo); Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest: 10 years, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2023); Océano Mar, Conde Duque, Madrid (2023); DISEMBODIED curated by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Nicodim, New York (2023); DISEMBODIED curated by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2022), L'Innominabile, confuso alla Porta dei Leoni, Magazzino, Rome (2022, solo); Desembarco en el País de Nunca Jamás, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2021, solo); Michiel Ceulers and Jorge Peris: Endangered Species, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2020); Dark Man a lomos del Pájaro de Fuego, IVAM Instituto Valenciàno d’Arte Moderna, Valencia (2020, solo); Adam’s Resurrection, Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest (2019, solo); Al norte de la tormenta, MAXXI Museum, Rome (2019); Our Lady of the Flowers, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2018); The Hierophant, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2017); Olmo 2017, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia (2017, solo); Portal del angel, Cantina Antinori, San Casciano Val di Pesa, Tuscany (2016, solo); Dolmen, Sinfonia nr. 7, Magazzino D’Arte Moderna, Rome (2015, solo); Tamaris, Chateau de Montbeliard, France (2012, solo); Micro, Aureo, Adela, MACRO, Rome (2010, solo).
