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.
– Ben Lee Ritchie Handler
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).
