Scarves, patches, leaves and even a rope were made by the young artist Iván Marcos Pereda with pieces of threads drawn from books on politics, philosophy, history and bibles, and are part of an exhibition on display in the Cuba Pavilion in the framework of the 23rd Cuba International Fair Book.
Under the name Ibid. the artist brings us to a more detailed analysis of knowledge, history and the book itself as the object that will serve to accumulate each new discovery.
However, Ibid. alerts on the relationship between opposites: there is no knowledge without prior emptiness and finiteness of life is also proof that the knowledge that can be achieved in life is equally limited. Precisely in the digital age, the multitude of social networks, the increasing accessibility to information Perera seems to warn us that this is a race in vain: the amplitude of references, objects and events beyond the primal support of pages bonded by a staple or cover. Now the texts are the sum of previous speeches, a dynamic universe of scenarios and narratives so multicultural that overflows any environment that tries to contain it.
Ibid. is a sober exhibition in his museum proposal and with a thesis nicely posed on curatorship. While it is true that the space has a high quality, minimalist treatment and integration of the exhibition ensemble is appreciated.
The artist throws at us the eternal question of how much we can really know or if that very word still makes sense in the grand era of information. We’ll see over time if production follows this path already traveled by others or persists in making us reflect on the logos and questions that occur in humans during their short existence.
Photos: Courtesy of the author of the text
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