The Illusion of a Floor of One’s Own

Moving along the corridors of the exhibition route, peepholes create the illusion of other adjoining spaces, mysterious rooms that are difficult or impossible to access. Manuel Calderón's miniatures hyperrealistically create rooms with impossible doors and connections that, with phantasmatic projections in them, give the impression of a reality that is both ours and not ours.

By means of a meandering game along the route, the peepholes will generate the impression of rooms that we cannot access, sowing in us the doubt about whether these spaces are real, projections or models. The last peephole, however, will show a life-size room in which we will be able to walk around, somewhat dismantling the distinction between reality and fiction that we had arrived at through repetition with the previous peepholes.

Credits
 

The Illusion of a Floor of One’s Own. Assemblies 1, 2 and 3
Models, 2025

The Illusion of a Floor of One’s Own. Floor 2
Platform, 2025

Manuel Calderón

Manuel Calderón lives and works in Madrid. Born in Bogotá in 1985, he studied art and research at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has received awards from the Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, EFG Bank and Artnexus. In 2015, he was selected to represent Colombia at ARCO with Galería El Museo in Bogotá. His work has been exhibited in cities such as London, Paris, Barcelona, São Paulo, Lima, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile and Miami.

www.manuelcalderon.art