Exhibition included in the annual exhibition cycle The more we know about them, the stranger they become.

What is a hole? This seemingly simple question leads immediately to the following problem: can we ontologically define what a hole is, given its enormous degree of dependence on the matter in which it takes shape? Could they be entities deprived of material constitution that, however, cannot exist independently of a material support? Could they be objects that need other objects in orderto exist? What are their consequences with regard to matter and the production of objects? What are their intrinsic qualities? Is a hole a physical manifestation of absence? With regard to matter, is it host or guest? Does its status as an opening imply a possibility for meeting between the surface and the interior of things? How can those holes that are not on the surface be found? Are they always visible to human beings? Could holes signify a paradigm shift with respect to our considerations about matter as something solid and compact? Could it be that matter needs them to exist as much as holes need matter?

Elastic Fold is an exhibition project that tackles holes as an extreme case of a reformulation (or a problem) of the traditional parameters for what we consider material. Holes as ontological and epistemological objects, as a concept; but also as a mundane and everyday experience through its local manifestations in matter. The hole as a symbol, but also as a stigma.

Elastic Fold is the first of the exhibitions that make up the year-long cycle The more we know about them, the stranger they become. Through 4 solo shows and a number of related public events, this cycle explores the agency of the object – the system of relationships that objects enable or include – as well as the implication of the subject within a new paradigm shift in which the subject is displaced from the center of knowledge to leave space for other entities. The goal is not so much to let objects and things speak for themselves, but to understand and putting into practice other systems of relations in which the distribution of value between subjects and objects is more equitable and, consequently, political.

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (Barcelona, 1975) is an artist and member of computer music group EVOL, together with Scottish artist Stephen Sharp. Their collaborative work revolves around the distortion of time and space and the deformation of techno culture.

Curator: Sonia Fernández Pan

Organizes & produces: Arts Santa Mònica - Departament de Cultura