Anaphore

Anaphora

United by their shared interest in repetitive gestures, Alice Dittmar and Natalia Blanch embarked on their collaboration with the intention of exploring the notion of repetition in greater depth. From the outset, they agreed to incorporate each other’s work into their own, establishing a process of exchange in which images, references and gestures circulate freely between them.

Through their exploration of the image of the river and an examination of the different qualities of water, the initial idea of repetition gradually evolved into one of transformation and cyclical movement.

Anaphora: from Latin anaphŏra, itself derived from the Greek ἀναφορά (anaphorá); in its strict sense, “repetition”, from ἀναφέρειν (anaphérein), meaning “to carry upwards”, “to go back” or “to return to the source”.

The project unfolds through these different meanings of the word anaphora: repetition and recurrence as processes that give rise to variation; and, metaphorically, the act of travelling upstream towards the point where the clouds and the river meet. Returning to the source of the creative act, repeating it with force.