This exhibition welcomes the visitor with a mixture of lights and colors that invites to calm, to slow down. They are sunset pantones, contrary to the harsh white lights usually associated with contemporary art. A world under the eyelids can be understood as a response to the intensity experienced by the Spanish artist Marco Godoy during his visit to Chile in October 2019, where, due to the contingency, he made works linked to the social outburst. In that context, the tranquility generated by the light of the exhibition questions us about affections, and, more specifically, about making politics from affections.
There is also a series of sculptures that invite us to rethink the monuments to power. “It is that theatrical part of authority that fascinates me, because it is where the images have to do, where authority is constructed through its devices, its lecterns, its press conferences. It is becoming more and more mediatic,” says the artist. They are works of different sizes, to talk about hierarchies, but they are also pieces full of hands, seeking to insist on contact, and again, on affections.