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Space R.S.I / S.I.R (Altered Vision)
The idea of art as still-life reminds me of the article “Fetish- ism: the symbolic, the imaginary and the real” which Wladimir Granoff and Jacques Lacan produced in 1954 as a fetish and which W. Granoff extended when he commented that in every past there is a part which is stagnant water. Over time I have noticed that this singular ideation has the ability to act as a perceptive modifier of reality, as it incites us to understand what we have experienced, as if past events could be kept calm and motionless at a particular moment, as they belong to directionless experiences that subsist, contained in some part
of the mind. It is precisely this conceptualisation which leads me to reimagine this space as a trapped vacuum that can only become visible if light passes through it.
And so our images should bring about a calmed reverberation close to Granoff ’s statement about suspended time. A vision which can be filled with the deep melancholy that emerges from our memories and a sign that signals the unsettling nature of still-life as the retained space where refractions and reflec- tions of light are blurred.
Written in Salamanca, 8 January 2009.
First published in exh. cat. Objeto sin Objeto, Fernando Sinaga, Susana Solano y Gustavo Torner. Text related to the artistic intervention Espacio R.S.I. / S.I.R. (La visión alterada) for the windows of El Corte Inglés (Preciados street), Madrid, 2009, and to the project Naturalezas muertas en blanco y negro of the program Asomarse al interior 01 of the CDAN, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, 2007.
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