Opening: Thursday December 7th 6 pm "My work explores the limits between reality and fiction," asserts Sebastián Díaz Morales. It is precisely this boundary that the artist aims to traverse in his Passages: a nod to Walter Benjamin? An evocation of the flow of time and space, and their relativity? Perhaps both elements, intertwined with the disquieting state of the subject transitioning from one place to another—always the same, unchanging, with firm, resolute footsteps, as if he knew exactly where he was headed. Yet, in this seemingly predictable drift, bewilderment creeps in. Thus, the exploration of the real and its shift into fiction becomes palpable in these "passages", which, despite their apparent clarity, end up revealing the opposite. Strangeness emerges, giving way to the desolation experienced by the man who walks.
This work by Díaz Morales, chosen to engage in dialogue with Alberto Giacometti's exhibition, casts the gaze upon a dystopian present, encountering another perspective—that of Giacometti's man, whose fragility is not devoid of the might of determination, an aspect that the character in Díaz Morales's Passages seems to share, although we are not entirely certain. The doubt is raised.
Image: Sebastián Díaz Morales, Pasajes I (2012)
