ABOUT THE WORK FUNES AND ME...
ABOUT THE WORKFunes and Mersault, New York Series, is a continuation of a body of work where I explore how spatial arrangements reflect on human conditions on a social, economical, and psychological level, based on the books by J.L. Borges “Funes the Memorious” and Albert Camus “The Stranger”. It is a piece that study processes of consciousness, the differences between our perceptions, internal reality with the external reality: “the very act of perceiving, of heeding, is of a selective order, every attention, every fixation of our conscience, implies a deliberate omission of that which is uninteresting”. The resulting piece creates a space gone awry, reflecting on a certain anxiety, generated by the objects themselves or their specific arrangement
ARTIST STATEMENT
‘How one maneuvers in the systems, determines what size and kind of space we work and live in” (Gordon Matta-Clark)
I am interested in situations where spaces of exchange are being produced. My work explores the inter-relationships between population, spatial environment and social organization in these kinds of spaces. I am interested not in the situation itself but in the flow of communication, I am interested not in the message but in the space between sender and receptor, in the circulation of messages, in the space of information de-coding, in the space between words.
I use natural materials or nature references, which I place together with artificial materials to create a paradoxical environment in which perception is both direct and mediated and meaning is confronted with anti-meaning.
My interventions are site-specific, requiring a spatial engagement with the city and/or the habitat living organisms are immersed in, exploring relationships, building bridges, exposing gaps between the different kind of spaces, ecological, social , economical, political and historical that contribute to cultural production.
My approach usually implies a direct action which requires a response from the viewer or participant and act as generator of material and knowledge relevant to the work, which can be the production of an action or intervention in real life, a performance, an architectural piece, the recreation or appropriation of a historical event, or the framing of an actual circumstance. Also one of the aims on using this “non mediated” approach is to question the “art making” activity by itself.
I consider the role of the artist as producer of reality as opposed to artist representing reality. I contemplate society as a body, the world as an integrated system. My art practice functions as a telecommunication link, which bridges ideas of perception, space and time, communication, global flows, participation and the generation of a new paradigm, a new shift in values, based in the butterfly effect: very small and simple systems and events can cause very complex behaviors or events, from Edward Lorenz “Chaos Theory”: ‘ the sensitive dependence of a system on initial conditions...’
My work together with other artists’ work and activities will expose these gaps and discontinuities and will create an alternative system of relations that can be viewed against the backdrop of the model of the city as it already exists.