December 16, 2008

The Digital Path to Analog Love, fiat ars et pereat mundus

Sebastián Patané Masuelli - Staring at the Ceiling in Buenos Aires - Centro Cultural Recoleta

the digital path to analog love 4: Staring at the Ceiling will be shown at La Argentina Pinta Bien: San Juan, curated by Marcelo de la Fuente, alongside work by Guadalupe Aguiar, Inés Estévez, Paula Gaetano, Bernardo Garay Pringles, Alberto Graffigna, Cibeles Guarnido, Federico Levato, Silvina Martinez, Mauro Páez, Silvina Adriana Pagés, Sebastián Patané Masuelli, Itatí Peinado, Graciela Pérez, Claudia Pérez De Sanctis, Mario Pra Baldi, Cecilia Rabbi Baldi, Luciana Rago, Eneida Roso, Alberto Guillermo Sánchez y Moisés Schabelman.

Opening: Thursday december 18, 8pm
Dates: december 18, 2008 - January 25, 2009
at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Junín 1930 (C.P. 1113) Buenos Aires.

The Digital Path To Analog Love:
4: Staring at the Ceiling

This is the fourth of a series of video installations that attempt to negotiate and navigate the space between the physical and the imaginary, between that which is tangible and that which is not.

Every Object or Person has at least a double history, one internal and almost secret and another which we project onto it.

In this case, the mattress documents on its rips and stains the the solitary intimacy of all who abandoned themselves there and left marks which are difficult to read, allusions to events that we can only imagine but we all somehow share.

Its counterpart is the image projected onto it, of someone who, before sleep but after wakefulness, stares at the ceiling, and when he does this he realizes that he abandons the image he himself projects, and that in so doing, in some way, he becomes a cloud, or a particle of a could, that he will wake tomorrow and be one again.