Consensus reality -and official history within it- is a collective specific construction: a cognitive construct conformed by a set of undisputed “facts” agreed upon by individuals and societies and as such, accepted as ultimate truth. But, does this consensus contain all the dimensions, layers of data, and alternative contexts of historical reality? Are part of this consensus all the actual facts considered in the intention of consent? What happens when accepted narratives are permeated by suppressed data?
Consensual Data Breakthrough is an scenario of alternatives that addresses our responsibility in the construction of our consensus. By problematizing narratives and different moments captured in time through three different pieces - Why the Moon?, Gambit, Emboscada - the exhibition attempts to subvert partialized historical notions that helped to build the worldviews we live in today during the Cold War, reevaluating them as ideological constructs. Like American art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto, I believe in art as “a moral adventure rather than merely an aesthetic interlude”. For me, that is the function of art: to facilitate the challenge of reformulating everything we have passively accepted and to implement the context for this re-negotiation, in order to achieve a better understanding of our times and ourselves.
