THE EXHORTATION OF IMMINENCE | Lia Colombino The curatorial concept to which we were called to respond ended up as more of an exhortation in that the time was thought to be at hand. In the midst of the popular uprising came the global pandemic. A sense of all times taking place in the times in which we live. Everything seems to be at a standstill and everything seems to be shaken up, everything is happening in a dizzying confusion, the likes of which we have never seen before, and in overwhelmingly slow motion. It is as if time were broken, and in this cleft all forms of time were concentrated. The curatorial concept, reconsidered, served as a brief hiatus to reflect upon the present. Maybe so we could get through it. To be pierced by an imminence, some urge that has yet to run up against that which remains unknown. That continual present, in which the past and future concentrate into the fleeting eternity of this particular time in history, has placed us face to face with a number of things: fears, strengths, monsters, and priorities. An almost ghost-like presence, that continual presence must pierce us so that we don’t escape unharmed, so that we can embrace the necessary dislocation that this temporary pause imposes on us. This minefield of time, that imminence, is what we must go through, affecting what we are, so that we are able to build another time; in which we can better live, beautifully so, in the Guaranian sense of beauty, where the good and the beautiful have an ethical dimension that brings with it the future.
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