Illusion

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Media: Casa Diógenes_02

'Casa Diógenes', International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York City, 2011. Narrative installation: 36 loose photo prints on a table with accompanying sound track (6’ 20’’) in a small room for one or two spectators at the same time. Variable dimensions. llusion’s last chapter begins with the protagonist entering the apartment of his father, who had been found dead in it. He had not spoken to him for years, and he comes to his house only to discover that the old man suffered Diogenes syndrome (extreme hoarding). The apartment is a jumble of found objects, accumulated in an inextricable chaos that fills the rooms from floor to ceiling. While wandering around, he finds a number of objects, texts and images that trigger some stories within the story, such as Dürer’s Rhinoceros (about second-hand knowledge), Novgorod Codex (example of hyper-palimpsest) and Seven Masks (about a process of unveiling layers of a subject till reaching his empty core).

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