The image of the labyrinth can be traced back to the ancient world. Ever since, its complex paths have acquired a rich symbolism across cultures. At once magical and metaphysical, it condenses the idea of an initiatory journey or a search for the self, while also evoking the complexity of the universe and its infinite pathways. In one of his poems on the labyrinth, Jorge Luis Borges wrote: “Hope not that the straightness of your path / that stubbornly branches off in two, / that stubbornly branches off in two, / will have an end” ("Elogio de la sombra", 1969). Àngels Ribé added her own contribution to this tradition with a yellow plastic installation first presented in Verderonne, near Paris, in 1969 and later re-installed at MACBA in 2011, and now shown again on the 30th anniversary of MACBA. The use of translucent yellow plastic reimagines a long-standing imagery of enclosure and opacity. With its two entrances and exits, Ribé’s labyrinth requires us to navigate its pathways and bifurcations, confronting us with their own bodies and their dialogue with space.
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