Big Bang Mirror
Tijuana Museum Triennial, CECUT.
Conceptual justification of the work
Search, insistence, curiosity, and research are the words that define this proposal, which is based on the continuation and amplification of a previous project (Big Bang Mirror), now in a phase that strengthens the discourse and incorporates not only the urban landscape but also the complicit gaze of the spectator, now a co-participant in an experience in which they are not only a witness but also the protagonist. In this way, a diverse and direct relationship is established between the work, the space, and the spectator. I intend to beautify the city and break in the monotony of the passers-by and pedestrians.
The street becomes a gallery. When the spectator sees the work, he sees himself and becomes part of it; the passers-by and the city are the work since the whole environment is reflected. The work and the public space cohabit in the gaze of the spectator and his reflection, incorporating, through the mirrors, fragments that decompose and decontextualize a new reality that confronts the notions of time, space, and truth. All this is in tune with the ideas of Adorno (1970), who affirmed that ‘as art transforms itself, it pushes its concept towards contents that it did not have.’
The idea of the Big Bang that gave rise to the universe, the initial point at which matter, space, and time were formed, underpins this work, with the addition of recent discoveries that indicate that this great event, which took place some 13.8 billion years ago, may have created a mirror universe where time runs backward. Based on this hypothesis, my work proposes an invitation to expand our thoughts, imagine, make, and bring out our potential, free of prejudices and open to infinite possibilities of reading and interpretation in this exhibition-interpretative journey.
Interpretation in this exhibition-interpretative journey encourages individual and collective experience from diverse and changing relationships based on subjectivities, inquiry, and observation.
Big Bang Mirror launches, from the sacredness of geometry and respect for the cosmos, a question and an invitation to scrutinize our origins, go to the core, dig, and recompose the broken mirrors. It is a simple and challenging exercise at the same time. A reencounter with the universal genesis that is simultaneous, a reencounter with our circumstances and, as this new theory suggests, opens interesting discussions about what we believe we know and accept as accurate, for this finding indicates that while time moves forward in our universe, it can run backward in another mirror universe that was created on the ‘other side’ of the Big Bang, an inverted reflection of the Big Bang. This mirror universe was created on the ‘other side’ of the Big Bang.