REFLEX.EPÍLOGO
2018
Two-channel video installation in white and black, displayed on twomonitors, 60″, no sound, plastic and debris.
This work is an extension of the exhibition project Reflex. A Garden and Other Things to Treasure [MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo] Santiago, Chile, is presented as a journey from the possibility of creating one’s own place: the garden for one’s own, towards the loss of this search. Reflex: The epilogue digs into the spaces of absence, the lost drift during the failed journey that has left everything at a dead end, in a collection of audiovisual images, but with a highly photographic meaning, that together forge a narrative without a script, an imprecise but familiar story, a diptych bordering the distant gaze and the reality represented by “the decay and fall of the spectacular and the market economy” (Debord).
The videos conforming the audiovisual diptych, as well as their montage in the viewing room evoke the latent instability and ruin of the disturbing absence; signs combined with seductive visuals seem to be the beginning of a story that ultimately is never told. The images, framed as an archive in a documentary-fiction project, contain a violent stillness, a desolate silence, which is tense precisely because it seems very strange in nowadays phenomena of agglomeration and acceleration. The offered epilogue turns out to be the exact opposite of an ending or the closure of the unfinished, implicitly revealing the inability to control the uncertain future that conceals the trauma behind it.
The work was exhibited and self curated for the project Postrauma, between December 2018 and February 2019 at Sala Gasco [Santiago, Chile].
Exhibition photographs by Jorge Brantmayer.