Until October 10th, you can visit “Black jacket, gray sweatshirt”, the solo exhibition of Jorge Satorre at CRAC Alsace.

From the observations he wrote down during a visit to Bosque de Chapultepec (Mexico City), Satorre made a series of 22 drawings that represent a couple in various positions. The drawings served as models for molds dug directly on the ground of CRAC’s garden, from which the concrete pieces were then extracted.

The series was inspired by the play “The Steel of Madrid” (1608) by Lope de Vega, that recounts a practice popular among Spanish high-society women of the 17th century which consisted of ingesting small bits of clay pots called “búcaros” for the supposedly beautifying and contraceptive qualities. To counter the harmful effects of clay-eating, it was recommended to “drink and stroll the steel”, i.e., to go to the woods or the countryside to drink ferruginous spring water. This practice was quickly eroticized by Spanish society, by insinuating that these curative walks led to furtive love affairs.