The conception of the spectator as a participatory element within art has been in constant evolution over the years, beyond the conservationist theories or practices that conceive the object as something sacred from which the observer must keep a distance -physically and intellectually-, and it is from this conception that Katia Miranda’s investigative and artistic practice is developed.

To perceive what we are not, Miranda uses rescue blankets (mylar) to create an immersive multi-sensory experience within the creative laboratory of Casa Guardabarranco; inviting the spectator to find themselves “within the material” in an exercise of self-knowledge in the midst of a culture overwhelmed by hyperreality. How we perceive ourselves and how we present ourselves to our peers is a product of the interaction with our environment and with what it presents to us. We present ourselves as an abstract form of our own existence, distorting the visual language to accommodate it within parameters of vanity and simulation in a society of excessive consumption.

With the neatness of a flash, Miranda gives the visitor the chance to become part of the work, disintegrating into reflections as imperfect as our understanding of what is real and what is fictional; constructing new possibilities of otherness where the subject loses the will to present himself as he is.

Andrés Cordón de la Fuente