Autonomy of fiction


Galería Tajamar, 2014. Santiago, Chile.

"Reality is stranger than fiction, but this is because, contrary to reality, fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities" Mark Twain.

Autonomy of fiction arises from certain questions that are related to what the media informs us, such as television, the Internet or the written media, that something about what we do not know more than what these media show us. The questions then, go through how we see things, if what we see is really what we see, or is what we want to see, or how I understand something unknown, something I have never seen without the mediation of a written, cybernetic or television media. That something, of which we cannot doubt because we have no parameter of veracity that tells us not to do so. In addition to these questions, there is my interest in a homemade or amateur way about scientific discoveries, about life beyond the earth, if they find water on other planets, if they find traces of life. Etc. Subjects about which I will never be sure, and that could be manipulated by the informant, by the sender of the message.

The piece consists of a robot vacuum cleaner that has a camera on its back recording its own path on the surface, which is exposed in real time in the same gallery. As a study laboratory, I put this robot to live in a space that has everything to survive, and the surface is made to exert difficulty on the machine and measure its possibilities, while what records the path of the vacuum cleaner sometimes detaches from its referent and becomes something else, a more autonomous image, which could even serve as an image of the lunar surface.


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