Taking a Stand. Reality is not what it seems

This is the approach and reflection that Tomar Posición proposes. This exhibition is generated through the reflection among Raúl Díaz Reyes, Ding Musa and Carlos Nunes’ artwork in the space at Ponce+Robles’ Gallery. The show suggests thinking about how things interact rather than thinking about what the things around us look like. A thought that happens to be essential in order to understand the reality in the new theories of quantum mechanics.

'In the physical world the light that hurts our eyes carries information about the objects where it comes from.'
Carlo Roveli

Tomar Posición is a three headed project that questions the importance of the description of the objects themselves and insists on the necessity of understanding the mechanisms and events that interact between the processes. All three artists intend to bestow prominence to the individual perception of every visitor to the exhibition. Carlo Roveli, Italian theoretical scientist, explains in his book ‘Reality is not what it seems’, in the world described by quantum mechanics there is not reality without the relationship among physical systems (the objects). As the artists in this exhibition suggest, it isn’t that things can interact, it’s the interaction that leads to the idea of the thing. The world of quantum mechanics is not a world of objects but one of basic events and things acquire entity the moment those basic events take place. In this case, the conjunction of the three projects by each artist in a fixed space-time.

This project is therefore generated from the interaction among the three different productions made specifically for the show. A physical interaction through reflection in Díaz Reyes, where the irradiance of colour and the reflection of Musa and Nunes’ work form their own sculptures. To Musa the perception of the shapes in space is fundamental and unique: it confronts the viewer (and the other artists’ work) to contemplate the reality represented as a structural unit in the construction of what we perceive. In Nunes it creates multiple possibilities and variations through experiments with colour and light, thus exploring a scientific universe as a production mechanism but with a clear interest in the metaphysics of the images generated by his own experiments.

Three artists who work from photography as a tool where light and colour interact in chemical processes that print information of the shapes of things in a permanent way. Shapes that not only are pigment particles that dye paper to produce images with the intention of being contemplated but also discover at a larger scale an clear approach of a vision that distorts what is presented to us; at the same time making the viewers distort the image and the reflection again and adopt an attitude towards what their eyes perceive. A game about the importance of determining a position before reality but also a responsibility for the power of transformation we have on the world around us, the world we are part of.

For Raúl Díaz Reyes, Ding Musa and Carlos Nunes, Tomar posición serves the purpose of focusing the action of the show on three different levels of interaction: between their artwork and the space, the reflections among the pieces of work but especially on the multiple processes that may emerge between the viewer and the artworks. A proposal where the public will have to look for its place and take a stance on their particular vision.