This space does not exist

This Space Does Not Exist questions the relationship between real space and imaginary space, a conflict that we experience, for example, in the paradox of existing in the real plane and being able to imagine infinite worlds. The exhibition proposes a journey from reality to the imaginary realm and from the imaginary realm back to reality.

This exhibition groups together works by five young artists, students and alumni of the UFV. Virginia Puertollano, Catara Rego, Javier Marte, Paula Cremades and myself, Isabel Merchante, unite to show various approaches to dematerialized space: as a virtual space, as a dream space, as a reflection of reality, as fiction, as an illusion, etc. The flowing condition of space facilitates the diversity of individual proposals that are nothing but particular ways of representing a space in which the virtual world and the physical world coexist through various techniques: virtual reality, installation, video, sculpture and photography.

The obvious differences of the artistic proposals abound in that virtual reality is not only a product of technology, for it has existed since we dream. It has an imaginary base integrated into our reality, which we can admire in the human capacity to create infinite universes which are uprooted from the worldly perishable plane.

The perception of space is housed in the inner life of the imagination, since our eye reflects an image that is transmitted to the brain, and any failure in the ocular lens conditions the singularities with which we see, think and feel real space. Exploring dematerialized spaces is the proposal we present for the viewer to delve into the myth of space as an essential form of imagination and human sensitivity.