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Statement by Mateo Pizarro
Many of the works of art I ´ m fascinated with require a patient observation to unfold; I hope the same can be said about my own work. I hope the images I create are difficult, unsettling, and rewarding. I am interested in producing contradictions, or secrets of the experience, and I mean the physical experience of a revelation. My work follows two basic intermitting obsessions: light and image. I’ d like to talk a little bit about both.
There is this expression: " the willful suspension of disbelief ", that denotes the willingness of an observer to believe a fabrication for his own entertainment. Theatre and Film are made wonderful because of it. Sometimes, Art is capable of the opposite, something along the lines of unwilling suspension of belief, like the first time one encounters the aural hallucinations of Maryanne Amacher, or the light distortions of Jesus Soto or James Turrel. The highly logical, rational and realistic expectations one might have about what reality is like are summarily shattered, if only for a moment, by sensory truth. My obsession with light is due in no small part to this very experience of revelation; the“ thingness of light” has allowed me to make invisible objects and warp time. There is this
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