aleph is the result of an improbable hypothesis: that it is possible to know the incommensurability and infinitude of reality. Some of the spatio-temporal paradoxes arising from Jorge Luis Borges‘ literary and philosophical universes (’The Aleph’, “The Zahir”, “The Writing of God” and The Book of Imaginary Beings) are transposed and reinvented through a sound narrative that operates through oneiric accounts that (con)merge: dreams from which you can’t wake up, vortexes that have no exterior, shining fish that support the world, walls that are portals, mountains that are skies, instants that contain all instants, spaces that contain all spaces or mirrors through which you can enter and exit.
The video installation – which takes the form of a corridor-device, designed to be experienced by a single viewer at a time – is either enclosed or expanded through the tensions that result between what are the images that language allows us to conceive and what are the images, however big they are and however close they are, that are impossible to see. The viewer is left with the inevitable surrender to their own presence.
Credits: Sound design