I’ve already been here. Headache
This installation is part of a larger project called I’ve already been here. It is a cycle of works centering around the sense of solitude in a city such as New York, where every year thousands of people go to find their luck.
This second chapter of the project is about the impressions that the artist got from the city: «everything runs while a lot of people are losing their strength. Every day someone is absent at the roll-call of the morning. I know that for anyone who leaves, there is someone who will take his place so that the illusion that the world goes on is saved, but after the economic crisis in Argentina and then the crisis of 2008 here, I think that it would be more interesting to focus on the people who disappear than to the everyday new rookies».
Headache is a work that captures the way people slowly lose the capability to tell the difference between truth and lie. It is a work that attempts to go into the depth of the multiple perceptions of reality that people develop while they start to lie to themselves trying to hide their fears and their failures. Space is a sort of labyrinth in which every room looks like the previous, and in which every exit is another entrance into the same obsession. This installation is the spatialization of a state of mind that can last for decades, making you fade little by little until the collapse and the disappearence.
