Hala is a third year student of engineering. One day, arriving late to a their math classes, receives a strange call on his cellphone. Is an unknown number and no one speaks the other side of the line. Only hear a sound, as does the empty shell of a snail when one's ear when. Hala
forget for a moment of his class in mathematics, complex variables and final exams. It is raining outside. For some magical reason, Hala know that what you hear on your cell phone is the sound of water, the waves breaking on a beach, maybe an ocean. No one speaks, no one breathes on the phone because it is water that has been called.
A Hala would think that if you call the water by his real name, this will tell you something but this slight rumor. "Pacific Ocean", she says, beginning his attempt to solve the riddle ...
This is the beginning of "Water Names," a tale of Kij Johnson included in the collection "The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Five, edited by Jonathan Strahan. I have also understood that "Water Names" is one of the stories included in the anthology of Kij Johnson, "Mythical Girl," which launched this project Fluid Friday, April 8 at 8 pm in the Orquideorama Four years after its publishing debut with "Water / Zero."
Yes, Kij Johnson already in Medellín and will be at the launch of his book as part of their participation in Fractal'11. Hernan Trujillo Viviana Ortiz and have done it again.
Meanwhile, at the Museum of Antioquia, Luis Fernando Peláez Antioquia artist has an exhibition of one of the names of water: "The River". He is one of the most important contemporary artists of our country, in 1980 with Doris Salcedo shared first place in the National Salon of Artists.
"The River" is a pair of large plants fully occupy the two temporary halls of the museum and several smaller-format works. Huge handmade canoes on tree trunks occupy the space as if they had run aground after the flood that brought the girl last year to many municipalities in Colombia. are flooded. Water, paradoxically, is not outside but inside them, and here and there, one other survivor of the tragedy waiting patiently to go down the water: a dog, a cow, a house or the remains of a house.
"Glass and fog was the memory of the house. The trail of white streets mixed with the rust and it was time immersed in the home. South. There
penetrated the water and everything seemed to become damp, dark tones evening announced that dissolved the blue, came a pale light on the roof which then dropped their spoils mauve. The house was dissolved and fragile as the last piece of childhood to become an object drifting, weightless, without shade. Were the rains of my thirteen years of those days that port, returning these fleeting lines ...".
Luis Fernando Peláez
Other facilities, small format, show tiny characters confronted with huge desolate landscapes, the ocean, fog, black and cloudy skies before the storm.
Water in its various states (rain, river, fog, sea) has served permanent fascination Luis Fernando Peláez. He already had a solo exhibition at the museum in 1996, when it still was located in the former headquarters, which today is home to the meeting. On that occasion, the show also had one of the names of water: "Rain."
But water as a reference for Peláez not an end in itself but a metaphor for the history and the passage of time. "On one side is the natural time, which is the rain, which carries the water, which is present in the cycles of nature. At that time natural happens, appears or is derived from historical time. But beyond the historical aspect is the evocation, is going through and the spectator, and this is where the viewer interprets or complete their own version. "
Because water, and so the same time, you recall. These are the memories that these pictures wake up in each of the spectators. Memoirs personal, intimate, unique. As the names evoke water Hana attempts in the story of Kij Johnson, fragile memories of a past that no longer exists, or perhaps a future is yet to come.
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