Instants of Metamorphosis 01 // theoretical description

The work combines references as the Jorge Luis Borges’ description of the A Bao A Qu in The Book of Imaginary Beings (BORGES, 2005), with the perspective brought by Clarice Lispector in her emergent writing book The Stream of Life (LISPECTOR, 1995) – a chaotic consciousness process of a being without gender, an ‘it’, in dialogue with the self, the other, space and time; a being instants of metamorphosis.

The spiral metaphor for a creative evolutionary process is inherent to the concept of the installation. Conceptually the art work is a dynamic system and their narratives, the stories it tells and which one it contains, have no end and no beginning.

Inspired by the Pablo Valbuena’s Augmented Sculpture, a video performance is projected onto a volumetric base that composes a subject-sculpture: a reference to the never-ending spiral one may climbs to acquire spiritual evolution. As one climbs, exploring the volumes, the video follows its movements, leaving stamped onto the ground, frozen instants of the performance, memories of the metamorphosis of the self. Nevertheless, the video and the sound never stop playing and following the movements of the audience.

The environment sound is the irregular and deep sound of someone breathing: a reference to yoga and meditation practices that intent to put the subject in deep contact with its essence. The immateriality of the video performance and its narrative, aim in stimulating reflections on self consciousness, alluding to the borders and the extensions one virtually constructs around to live and dialogue, considering an ecological perspective.

All the actions, the trans-actions, are integrated in a never end timeline that incorporates several times, as a garden of forking paths(BORGES, 1941), never end storied spaces (BASKIN, 2008) where imaginary beings live: ‘its’; ourselves, and the others.

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