Emancipation through Art

We usually walk around in life noticing many things, but many other things are left unnoticed. Like a limelight our perception focus on things that interest us, may they be because of our need to survive or modelled by our past experiences, conventions or our cultural baggage that we carry from where we came from to our destiny.

But our brain can apprehend a lot more. We need do leave this fixed model to see beyond. That is where our path to evolution is. If we stop and think, a lot of things we consider real are just constructions of our mind. Time and space lead our way but they are only subjective representations and can be adapted according to each individual experience.

Our mentality have changed a lot from Modernity to Post-Modernity, we moved from a mechanical, dualistic perspective to a more relative point of view. Quantum Physics raised the notion that each observer creates his own reality and things happen according to the path he chooses.

Art followed this change of paradigms with the idea that the work of art needs the observer to exist because it depends on his personal interpretation. In this exhibition we will use perception to reach emancipation. The viewer will enter a cave that alludes to Plato’s Cave Theory and try to provoke an awareness of the here and now. The understanding that space and time are representations. This experience can be the key to open new doors to see beyond.

Buddhists had already claimed reality is an illusion. Plato’s Cave Theory declares that things exist only in their appearance for us. In the myth the prisoners of the cave see shadows projected on the walls and hear the sounds that come from outside and they believe that these shadows are reality. A reality filtered by the senses and so they are just appearances.

Following this idea we promote a moment of meditation on our being through art. A perceptive art that uses our senses so that each one can have the perception of themselves perceiving. This realization can make them leave the exhibition and see reality with emancipated eyes.