Leandro Erlich: Port memories

Port, place of departure and arrival. Site intended to give shelter to the boats after a journey in a storm, or as a stopover for refueling fuel, food, passengers. Ports are those places where the flow of people crossing in and out of a territory. They are gateway to meet other experiences, or exit or escape from different situations. The ports are fixed spaces, designed to accommodate mobile situations, which are so fleeting, accidental, unexpected, people from different backgrounds, with different purposes. It is in the ports where they live silent, thousands of stories that if assume voice, be noticed before in many similar cases in other divergent, but always unique.

If the ports are transit areas, they are also memories, because in them is fixed, as in a moment, the point of departure or abandonment-which in a sense is the same, because every end is both a beginning-of a project, a story, an experience.

Possibly with these and other issues on the horizon, Erlich presented in the Immigrants Hotel your port. A unique, serene, taciturn, Port of memories, inhabited by ghostly presences passing this landmark building that houses the Centre for Contemporary Art MUNTREF and imaginary perspectives that hover around each of the spectators who come to this space.

Memories hinge, what is left and what starts, the eternal becoming, the persistent flow of water and what they bring and take. A project that began in Korea as Port of reflections and in this new scale takes other forms, incorporating a subtle, hypnotic motion, to be overprinted in a precise space, making this project a specific site where past and present meet in the prodigious moment of the experience of each transiting their catwalks.