Shelter from the storm

If you’re indoors, look up at the ceiling and consider the sliver of space that the roof above occupies, separating the room from the outside world. This sliver is where Selva Aparicio’s “A salvo,” on view at Volume Gallery, balances. “A salvo” considers the roof as a blindly trusted object, tasked with being both a protector from weather and a harbourer of emotional security. At the center of the gallery floor is Bajo un mismo cielo, a series of clay roof tiles lined up in a sloping rectangle. Sharply detailed imprints of leaves are scattered across the muted reddish-brown tiles. Some imprints overlap one another in dimensioned piles; others split across two levels of the graduated rows of tiles. The deeply rendered fossilized leaves appear palpably peelable, becoming a record of the roof’s performance as guardian of the interior. On the gallery walls are rooflike structures covered in shingles made of delicate wasp-nest paper.

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