Estado de sitio, gesto de coleccionar: Conversando con Rafael Tormo Cuenca

Abstract

From the conversation with the valencian artist Rafael Tormo Cuenca comes a reflection on our relationship with the world at this time in which we interact through technological devices and it seems that our physical social environment has been abandoned. This communication begins from a curatorial project consisting in giving shape to ideas surrounding this hypothesis and links them to contemporary thought, with the central figure of Walter Benjamin seen from the perspective of Hito Steyerl and the artist himself. The act of collecting, the impact of technology and other forms of economy are analyzed here from the phenomenon of the great universal exhibitions as opposed to artistic practice itself.