Whatever happened, Happened

Daniel Palacios (ES)

Audience and time, visualised by laser, 2010

Exhibition spaces are live entities, not bare container spaces. The exhibition is an organism that grows inside it and expands through it, defining the paths of the circulatory system which we travel.

The installation slowly burns concentric rings on the surface of a piece of virgin wood using a laser. Like a tree leaning in the direction of the sun, these rings expand following the flow of visitors. This produces a subjective, but legible, graphic of what happens in the vicinity of the installation, which merges the influence of your presence at the time of your visit with the vision of the rings generated prior to your arrival.

Constantly analysing its environment, this installation uses real-time data to produce a graphic that will only be completed when the exhibition ends. This graphic is the only trace left of what happened there: more than a visualisation of data, it becomes the data itself.

About Daniel
I’m a multimedia artist. My work is based on complex machinery and software, but beyond these technical aspects, my interest lies in the relationship of human, philosophical questions about perception, memory, time and space. My projects emerge from images and experiences resulting from a methodical exploration of the world, as well as the discrepancy between the technical precision of execution and a subjective reproduction of reality, depicting the intricate relationships that occur in a particular time and place.

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