"Temps Vécu" consists of a joint writing exercise, in which the receptor only discovers the message to be conveyed when the narrator takes and guides her hand. The project originated in a string of conversations between the artist and her grandmother, in which, not surprisingly, the resulting stories spring from a personal place. Within this familiar background arises a silent dialogue under the form of a drawing.

From this tracing emerges the outline of different types of sewing stitches, functioning, every single one of them, as a trigger of the connection between memory, transmission and learning. In this procedure, the drawing's features show a defect as the result of the natural interaction between teller and receiver. By recording this action, we are led by a "guiding" which, much like what occurs with language, brings us from one private realm to another. We are also taken by the hand and guided through stories that tell us about other stories; we pass through images from different geographies which, although seemingly detached from one another, arise unified in Mejías' imagery.

 

 

We had the experience but missed the meaning,

And approach to the meaning restores the experience.

T. S. Elliot, "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages"

 

Temps vécu. Single-channel video, 8’48’’, 2015 © courtesy of the artist

 

 

Temps vécu (screenshot). Single-channel video, 8’48’’, 2015 © courtesy of the artist

 

Temps vécu (screenshot). Single-channel video, 8’48’’, 2015 © courtesy of the artist

 

 

 

diálogo1 - diálogo 5. Prints on Hahnemühle, 30x40 cm each, 2015 © courtesy of the artist