Responding to Campo Art Fest theme On Progress, the installation Night Curtain examines our relationship with narrative and time as well as darkness as a symbol of mystery. In this installation of several layers of torn and patched fabric, mounted on a crossbar, Delbracio presents us with a recreated or theatrical image that can remind us both of a theatre curtain, an awning weathered through time, the entrance to a cave or the vastness of the night sky.
In Telón Nocturno, Delbracio proposes an alternative to the linear idea of technological progress as an instrument of conquest. Instead, she invites us to enter the space of mystery and the unknown, not as something that must be conquered or deciphered, but rather as a place to be inhabited and revered.
Telón Nocturno
Campo Art Fest, 2022
On Progress & express mail
When Lalu was invited to participate in this new edition of the festival we never imagined that the almost three square meter installation she had in mind would be transformed into a QR code. The realization of Telón Nocturno sought in its conception to examine our relationship with narrative, time and darkness as a symbol of mystery, proposing an alternative to the linear idea of technological progress as an instrument of conquest. Today, Telón Nocturno ended up demonstrating the intricacies of technological progress from an unthinkable angle. Currently based in London, her intention was to travel with the work to Pueblo Garzón to stage it. But the advance of the pandemic in the United Kingdom made her trip impossible, and the problems of the international mail opposed the work's plans to travel unaccompanied.
And so we arrive at this moment: three centuries of inventions that have symbolized the progress of humanity put into play in an unintentional way. Airplanes and international express mail, representatives of 20th century progress and modernity, became obsolete; the internet, telecommunications and the novel QR codes of the 21st century came to the rescue, to ride on the icon of 19th century progress, now abandoned: the Pueblo Garzón train station.
Welcome to rethinking the concept of modernity in contemporaneity!
Text by Camila Pazos