2015 » Spain » Performing Space

Authors of Theme:	Ángela Guerrero Quintana, Manuel Cid
Designer / Architect of exhibition:	Ángela Guerrero Quintana Manuel Cid
Institution:	INAEM - AC/E - AECID - RESAD - Instituto Cervantes

De profundis

We are heirs to a world that has established ideas of progress based on the under-development of human capacity, with areas of control that go beyond what is public and enter into the private sphere, confirming the fears of turn-of-the-century science fiction, so that human beings no longer feel that they are themselves; they have studied their frailties and built a world on the scale of their weaknesses. Their minds have lost track in the face of so many claims on their attention and placebos that inhibit physical experience.

Individuals and urban space are the main tools used in our installation. This sculptural unit displays the forgotten architectural nakedness of human beings, the combination of their desires and needs, liberation from who they are and a reminder that what human beings show themselves to be is a finite manifestation subject to a real body and time scale. It is a warning to let go of what is confusing us, holding us back and tormenting us.

De Profundis is an invitation to let go of our cultural, emotional and spiritual prejudices. It proposes a brief parenthesis by way of abstraction, momentarily taking us away from the macro-organism of the PQ'15 and reducing it to the micro-organism constituted by us as individuals.
is an invitation to let go of our cultural, emotional and spiritual prejudices. It proposes a brief parenthesis by way of abstraction, momentarily taking us away from the macro-organism of the PQ'15 and reducing it to the micro-organism constituted by us as individuals.

Viewers are not mere bystanders: their presence provides sound, their bodies generate intermittence in the propagation of light and their perception substantially changes the way in which the work is defined.

The location of the installation is not accidental. A religi-ous building is formed by a community of individuals in connection with forces that go beyond their understanding. Ever since human beings have had consciousness, faith and the spaces conceived to contain it have been linked to their identity. There is a set of values that point to the Church of Saint Thomas as the ideal location for the event, complementing and enhancing the installation.

De profundis is a voyage of initiation from the physical, sensory and social points of view, where the experiences that the group of individuals participating in the activity go through focus on unconsciously entering into contact with the ideas that lie behind the concept of the sculptural object: trapping the moment, the light, the reflections and the darkness.
is a voyage of initiation from the physical, sensory and social points of view, where the experiences that the group of individuals participating in the activity go through focus on unconsciously entering into contact with the ideas that lie behind the concept of the sculptural object: trapping the moment, the light, the reflections and the darkness.

The group will sit on the ground and perform relaxation and meditation exercises. Each participant will have a pinhole camera made from a simple aluminium container (to trap the instant, the light). The aim is not to reveal the image and exhibit it, but to consider the idea that part of the moment shared has been trapped inside the containers, as a metaphor for our bodily existence.