This site-specific project symbolically “brings the sky down,” carrying drawing and painting on paper into the spatial realm, in a play of sensations between body, painting, and architecture.

The sky becomes vulnerability, skin, and memory—almost a body— as though centuries of history from that rich Mudejar ceiling were descending and turning into strands of landscape. In this work by Argentine artist Luciana Rago, the vegetal-fiber papers are treated with ink and watercolor, creating an intriguing visual play born from her fascination with ambiguity: blurring front and back, exploring multiple possibilities in a tension between the light, the ethereal, and the dense, the permanent. The work thus presents itself as a vital experience to be traversed: an immersive scenography offering different points of view and actively engaging those who move through it.

The Sky at My Feet, which takes its title from an anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry, is a complex yet sensorial metaphor: a sky deconstructed into light, levity, and emotion, while its surface becomes a record of memory, trace, and resistance. The artist thus enters into dialogue with the Eastern pictorial tradition, but the stroke and the stain now break into three-dimensionality to confront the body and its imperative temporality.