Opening: Thursday, September 4th, 3 p.m As an archive of perception, the garden opens into a space where the stars behold us, and where we reflect on our cosmic position and the construction of reality. Plants and their aromas—guardians of ancestral knowledge—challenge the hegemony of dominant senses and the supremacy of “rational” knowledge, offering instead an affective archive that connects personal and collective memory. The body, resisting the bureaucratization of the image, becomes a living archive that defies representational conventions, asserting its singularity and its right to difference. Far from neutral, algorithms rewrite history and prompt us to question memory in the digital age, to imagine intersections between civilizations, and to consider our place in the future of synthetic images. The questions raised by these works, inherent to both art and science, encourage us to explore the limits of the archive, to transgress its boundaries, and to redefine its nature in a context where anti-intellectual forces seek to simplify and control knowledge. The archive, as a space of record and memory, expands towards new readings and interpretations, resisting the homogenization of thought and censorship. In a world threatened by simplification and control, The Reconfigured Archive stands as a space of resistance, where complexity, multiplicity, and critique find their place.
Image: Martín Bollati, HermesUnesco