This is the second dialogue with Pinazo: identidades, developed through the work of Sofía Alemán and presented within the exhibition’s Anonimatos section.

“Lo-que-ocurre (What-happens) is an exploration of the concept of the crowd, approached through the image and its display. Through the process of estrangement that arises from observing collective events, this visual device takes that estrangement and presents it from two perspectives. Sometimes, the point of view is situated within the crowd itself, so close that the object of observation is entirely omitted. The gaze, moving through the space, drifts into the margins and lingers in in anticipation. At other times, however, the power of the event is triggered. The gaze, fully immersed, reveals how the collective presence itself can become an event. ‘They happen within the point that expands,’ and now, I too, belong.

In a context where even the slightest experience of belonging to a collective is increasingly obstructed by systemic violence affecting the conditions of urban life, relational space becomes alien. Yet it is within the power of the singular, contingent event – acting as a counterpoint to the determinism of structured events – that the potential for action and subjectivity within the collective resides.”

(Text by Sofía Alemán)

They gaze at a point, a fence, or an avalanche
something that has happened, something that expands,
it calls to them, draws them in, they enter the fence
and happen within it as I watch,
they happen within the point that expands,
it draws near, it pulls me in, and becomes another gaze
that watches us all and writes what you
have just looked at.

(Chantal Maillard, Matar a Platón, p. 39)