Artworks

The series The Dark is Light Enough, that my mother worked on during the 1960s, is meaningful to me in various ways. An anecdote she often told was about a conversation she held with Jorge Luis Borges, one of many on a park bench across from the National Library which he headed, in which she invites him to her upcoming exhibition, a moment in which he tells her that he is blind, recognizing that she had never realized it… a credible story knowing how naive my mother could be, in the best sense of the word. In their rapport, he proposed the non-literal translation into Spanish (la oscuridad tiene su luz) of the title of a book she was fond of, called The Dark is Light Enough. So she actually began the series with the Spanish name, which has a subtle but different meaning (darkness has its light). This gesture he offered her came with a sense of belonging and recognition at a transcendental level, as she often floated in an ephemeral, almost an oneiric state of mind—it was her way of being in the world. She was good at integrating the emotional with the intellectual, as I believe comes through in much of her work. This is reflected in this series, which she worked on during what was probably the most significant decade throughout her life; she returned from Europe to Argentina, and then emigrated again, this time to New York. A decade in which she brought her 3 children into this world, so on a personal note, I feel very much a part of this series, literally and emotionally... Q.E.P.D.

 — Pedro Reissig