El Origen del mundo

The narratives that explain the origin and functioning of the material and invisible world, allowed the original cultures of America to communicate through time and space. These sophisticated technologies, which were only transmitted from the most intimate experiences (such as religion, art, death or love) were displaced over time to the terrain of the fantastic, terrifying or wonderful, to give way to the rational and measurable thinking.

Due to this transformation of language, produced by homogenizing historical accounts, enormous amounts of knowledge have ceased to be used in everyday life and reality has been reduced to a single dimension, narrated from a single voice. With this exhibition, which brings together the work of four Latin American artists, we want to open the doors to a multiple reality in which different spheres of knowledge are connected. When the texts were written on pieces of leather and not on paper, it was usual to find remains of other manuscripts in the New Document. This process, known as the palimpsest, was brought into philosophy by Jorge Luis Borges, who was very interested in the way that different influences give rise to fiction. For Borges, a text is composed of all the influences that feed it, just as a body is formed from all the bodies and affects that accompany it. To this extent, each piece in this exhibition can be understood, materially or conceptually, from the other works that house it. Now that it is so necessary to find greener ways of assuming reality, the Origin of the World opens the possibility of asking the adequate questions.