Yolanda Ceballos

This installation, which consists of sculptures, atmospheric mechanisms, sounds, perfumes, and candies, is my intent to recreate in this space all the perceptions I felt on a particular day. Here I am trying to fabricate the weather of a day that happened in the past and keep it happening in the eternal present, modifying and transforming not only the sculpture but the memory as well.

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The days I’m recreating here are: Monday 11/13/2023 when I understood something about the Moon, Friday 06/04/2021 when I understood something about Venus, and Sunday 09/22/2024 when I understood something about the Sun. At the same time, Thursday 09/15/2022 when I understood something about Jupiter is happening in Monterrey.

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With fragments from my diary, I wrote during a span of three years (what I consider a cycle in my life) I try to explain why these days were particularly important, how these elements came into existence and how everything connects. During that time, I was mainly reading Jung, Agrippa, and Deleuze. I was also investigating planetary cycles and Roman mythology.

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It all started on 04/06/2021 in Monterrey when I woke up, and I realized I had dreamed of a perfume for the planet Venus. In my dream, I smelled all the scents that made up the perfume. I saw colors in those scents. I even tasted them.
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These dates, and these installations of perceptions take me traveling to specific days, times and spaces. They make me rewrite my memory each time. I often wonder how these experiences are impacting and shaping my future. What about yours?

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- Yolanda Ceballos

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