Within the context of his participation at BIENALSUR, Eduardo Basualdo presents the project Remote control, which includes the installation Will along with other works by the artist of different periods.
The works here presented reflect on the relation between time and space, and are trespassed by a failed logic. They are technical devices operated by machines that work in an absurd way according to an uncertainty and abandonment principle. They are automatons that go on working eternally, subject to a rule without a visible meaning. Willis a kinetic installation. It consists of a typical garage fence located in the middle of the room, dividing the space in two halves. The gate moves automatically and hits the walls, closing one side and opening the other at the same time. Both sides of the fence always remain together through a passage. The location of this passage changes its place and forces the public to move or to wait for the right moment to walk through. This work, which functions as the entrance of the exhibition, talks about the limits, the possibilities that we have, the imprisonment, and the place corresponding to each one of us. Later, we see Hunger, a kinetic sculpture composed of three pieces of burned wood animated by two small motors that uselessly attempt to lift it and it falls again; Homeless, a roulette spinning endlessly without the ball stopping at any number; Fire rain, where a set of lights makes the shade of one of the lamps turn red, and The hours, a permanent call from the inside of a wall without any door. The time of the exhibition is the “present”, a present that the artist defines as “elastic, soft, like quicksand that keeps us rowing in the same place. Or open galleries that let us go through them just to surprise us with an identical room next to them”.
