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Roberto Cabot |
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The reflexion device 2004/2011
This ongoing project is about the relation between
what we see and what we could see. To see is to capture
light, to draw light lines with the look. Mirrors transport light,
images, places. There is a certain point at the Apparatus where
one can see the garden, which is actually out of sight. At another
position, one sees a mirror where one expects to see oneself, but
actually, the person at the other side of the thing is on vew. Besides
this mirror there is another one, aparently the same configuration,
but it reflexes though oneself this time. These are sort of incidents
of the seeing which desorder our usual habits of perception, of
how we visualize space. It is related to ilusionism. Basically the
machine does the same as the paintings do: it decieves the eye.
It should decieve the tired eye of every morning with its bad habits
and blindness. To the optic effects of the painting correspond the
"features" of the machine. The periscopic feature diverts the normal
line of vision, the defragmenting front breaks the usual continuity
of space and vision.
"Para uno de esos gnósticos, el visible universo
era una ilusión o (más precisamente) un sofisma. Los espejos y el
coito son abominables (mirrors and coitus are hateful)
porque lo multiplican y lo divulgan" |
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Former version (picture from2005) |
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Inner Life (picture from 2011) |