2021

This ghostly “non-place”, acts as a “curtain”, leading to tension between the inside and the outside. This enigmatic space encroached upon by external social issues, suggests human presence and the invisibility of who always occupied the place of the Other, enabling me to question hierarchies and exclusion systems.

The idea of “limit” pushes the boundaries of my own practice incorporating the disturbing element of technological devices, which I use as a poetic discourse since they “blur” the frontiers of our subjectivity when they penetrate our intimacy. It is, likewise, the limit between the closeness and distance of the visitors, who with their bodily presence expose to view or hide.

The installation, in a dark room, collapses linear time, fragmenting perception. It consists of four 3D printed pieces in 3D and projections on the walls. When the visitors enter, two translucent heads light up, floating in the space enveloped by a low frequency immersive sound, that indicates an imminence: something is going to happen. One of the pieces contains blood inside, in a kind of suspended time which falls like rain activated by the presence of the visitors. The still blood allows us to accept the materiality of the body and its mortality enabling us to re-territorialize the exiled body. Conversely, the circulating blood questions the role assigned to us by history.

Suspended time, through unmoving blood, confronts us with the open “wound”, only activated by a fragment of the feminine body, creating an ambiguous edge that ‘reveals’ the secret never unravelled in the work, whose driving force is desire: the veil is that ghostly woman that re-writes history from the fringes.