Inaugura ARTLV09

Enviado por Carlos Garaicoa (artista plástico cubano)

Queridos Amigos:

Es un placer saludarlos e invitarlos a la inauguración de ARTLV09 donde estaré exhibiendo mi obra:

Campus o la Babel del Conocimiento, 2002
Instalación: Una foto en B/N en material adhesivo, dos dibujos: lapiz y tinta sobre papel (62 x 260 cm; 33 x 360 cm) una maqueta en madera y fotografías (85x157x157 cm), texto en vinilo.

Un abrazo, Carlos Garaicoa
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Dear Friends:

Hello, I’d like to invite you to the opening of ARTLV09 where I’ll be showing my work:

Campus or the Babel of Knowledge, 2002
Installation: One B/W photograph in adhesive material, two drawing pencil and ink on paper (62 x 260 cm; 33 x 360 cm), one model in wood and photographs (85x157x157 cm), text in vinyl .

Hugs,
Carlos Garaicoa




This piece intends to comment on societies and controlling states. It imagines the circulation of knowledge and learning in a "future" or contemporary society as happening in a solitary, terrible and centralized place. A place for the achievement of a supreme state of knowledge would be possible only if the individual made an effort to escape his circumstances, not the physical ones but the spiritual ones. Reaching knowledge would lead us only to discover our more human face and our need to discover interpersonal relations. This knowledge would work solely as a tool for the awareness and understanding of others. However, in order to achieve it one would have to suffer censorship, loneliness, confinement and even flagellation. Campus or the Babel of Knowledge is the addition of the experiences that human beings have been subjected to throughout time. It imagines the structure and search for knowledge as taking place in a monastic cloister, almost a medieval one, at the same time that it repeats the well-known shape of the panopticon discussed so much by Michel Foucault. It is the reversal of the labyrinth and the Borgesian library, a tower, like that of Babel, but with a more human God, with its reverse side of knowledge, or its insipidness. It is an anti-utopian building, because it's already been and returned from the moment of social dreams. The origin of the piece is the notion of the failure of reality; the piece is the result of the lack of faith and beliefs so prevalent in contemporary society. Carlos Garaicoa interviewed by Block, Holly. “Carlos Garaicoa”. In Bomb Winter 2002-03, p.p. 22-29.