Raven Chacon / Ishan Clemenco / Manon de Boer / Claire Fontaine / Isabel Nuño de Buen / Carlos Reyes / Ana Vaz
Curated by Diego Villalobos
“The more complex the object we are attempting to apprehend, the more important it is to have different sets of eyes, so that these rays of light converge and we can see the One through the many.”
– Benjamín Labatut
There’s more to reality than meets the eye. In his nonfiction novel When We Cease to Understand the World, writer Benjamín Labatut takes us on a journey through some of the most consequential scientific discoveries of the 20th century, which ushered in the age of Quantum Physics. With each discovery, a new set of questions emerges. Thus, Labatut concludes, any search for ultimate truths will lead you, again and again, to uncertainty or the unknown.
The Blinding Light chooses to dwell in a place akin to the quantum realm, where things are out of focus and less defined. The exhibition brings together a group of national and international artists who navigate and blur the boundaries between fiction and reality, and between dominant official narratives and first-person experiences. Working across sculpture, moving image, and printed matter, they present speculative stories and counter-histories of resistance and survival——from revisiting moments of colonial contact to reclaiming embodied knowledge——to bring forth the possibilities of forgotten events and challenge fixed historical and political accounts.
Read Diego Villalobos’ full curatorial statement and learn more about each artist included in The Blinding Light press release here.