IP11 / 2009

Worn-out Words in Common Places
Rosa Santos Gallery, Valencia
SIC. Society and Culture. MUVIM, Valencia
Observatori. Living together, Atarazanas of Valencia

Eight photographs hung at various heights transport us into a reflection on the aura of the artwork in the age of its technical reproducibility¹. Through the capture of the fleeting moment, authenticity seems to dissolve in the face of mass reproduction, while the torn paper evokes the destruction of the text as the narrator of a story on the verge of disappearing².

1. Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936.
2. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, 1967.