Adrián Villar Rojas has built a practice working across media to create immersive environments and experiences that seem to be in a state of perpetual space-time travel.
In La fin de l’imagination, Villar Rojas asks how COVID-19 is affecting time—our human time, our language, our systems of representation. For example, if meaning is created with our imagination, a clock or a calendar is not less fantasious than a Jackson Pollock painting. Clocks and Pollocks are equally subjective. But, all fabulations are supported by a decisive amalgam: power.
The power of revolutionary France in 1793 was not enough to implement Napoléon’s newly invented decimal calendar worldwide, nor even for more than 12 years in France, but the wealth and influence of the United States after World War II was certainly enough to propose Abstract Expressionism as a canon for contemporary art. Through Villar Rojas’ world-building, echoes of these constructs, the clock and the...calendar, return to Paris like ghosts in a haunted house.
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