Silkscreen poster for the artist's performance in Lindre-Basse in 2013.

In the context of his residency in Lindre-Basse, he is researching what he calls "esoteric architecture", which is undergoing a renaissance in some rural areas. The return to nature and the desire for communion with "primordial forces" are phenomena that are very characteristic of this architecture in Europe, and this is something the artist is eager to study.In particular, he has made use of an emblematic work of architecture by Rudolf Steiner: the Goetheanum, the current headquarters of the General Anthroposophical Society, built in the 1920s in Dornach near Basel. He superimposes this typical example of organic architecture over the Anahuacalli, a museum designed by muralist Diego Rivera in Mexico City in the 1950s, housing works of pre-Hispanic art. Bringing together these two theoretically distant cities is more than disturbing and reflects that survival of forms which Santiago Borja enjoys unfolding in his work.

For the open studio event, he is offering the public a chance to attend a eurythmy session - a spoken, spiritual dance invented by anthroposophists...To what extent can every form, and even the smallest gesture, have spiritual roots? This is one of the questions he will be encouraging us to consider together during this event.

Marie Cozette

60 x 80 cm

Available at CAC - la synagogue de Delme or order it by mail.