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The Time that Remains
Some of Bachelard’s ideas explain how the imagination ends up deforming the pragmatic copies with which perception provides us. It is therefore necessary to inhabit the semantic thicket where everything ends up intermingling with everything to produce a de-differentiated amalgam arranged into a jumble of images. S.I.R. / R.S.I. is the space where objects dissolve into an indiscernible magnetic field. In this respect, André Breton states in his Second Manifesto of Surrealism:“Everything tends to make
us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.”
We must find the place from which to create a situation that modifies vision and shows nothing to be a vacuum which diverts the visible towards the symbolic and the imaginal.The symmet- rical taken to mean an emblem of proportion and harmony where a plait is invented to enclose the secret. A catoptric for catalysing the last reflections of that which is visible.
In this respect, Marc Augué has provided the cognitive frame- work for understanding the fetish as a force where two realities converge: one referring to that which represents and the other to that which relates. An awareness that exceeds meanings from a construction that abandons the maker only to return to him from a place which explains the convulsive and uncontainable nature of every creation.
Written in Salamanca, 11 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.
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