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I’d Like to Be on TV, 2017
As a child, I used to dream about the people I saw on television.
It was not really admiration, but rather the desire to become, myself, a protagonist in that world, a world that for me seemed to be defined by appearing in this visual medium: television.
I did not want to take their place or become one of the personalities on TV. Instead, I wanted to be someone who, as the subject of their own life, sets no limits for themselves and dreams of the infinite potential within.
Yet, while growing up as a member of society, this dream becomes enclosed within the boundaries of a profession, or else replaced by the satisfaction derived from material consumption.
For me, a dream is something both small and immense. It is an unreasonable imagination, even a kind of madness, sometimes an illusion, and yet I cannot help continuing to pursue it despite knowing all this.
This work is the result of my effort to approach the question of the nature of “dream” in its pure and simple form, as it existed in my childhood.
What is singular about television is that it is a medium in which the worlds of reality and fiction coexist.
As I look at a world where the ideals and desires of modern humanity are mixed together and scattered, I once again sink into contemplation of the unreal beauty of dream.
It was not really admiration, but rather the desire to become, myself, a protagonist in that world, a world that for me seemed to be defined by appearing in this visual medium: television.
I did not want to take their place or become one of the personalities on TV. Instead, I wanted to be someone who, as the subject of their own life, sets no limits for themselves and dreams of the infinite potential within.
Yet, while growing up as a member of society, this dream becomes enclosed within the boundaries of a profession, or else replaced by the satisfaction derived from material consumption.
For me, a dream is something both small and immense. It is an unreasonable imagination, even a kind of madness, sometimes an illusion, and yet I cannot help continuing to pursue it despite knowing all this.
This work is the result of my effort to approach the question of the nature of “dream” in its pure and simple form, as it existed in my childhood.
What is singular about television is that it is a medium in which the worlds of reality and fiction coexist.
As I look at a world where the ideals and desires of modern humanity are mixed together and scattered, I once again sink into contemplation of the unreal beauty of dream.
I’d Like to Be on TV, collage on canvas, painting, 2017
This work brings to light the essence of dream.
To speak about it, I chose television as a medium for two reasons: first, because of the particular place television occupies in the life of contemporary people, where ideals and all kinds of desires converge; second, in memory of the innocent dreams of childhood, layered with memories of a time when appearing on television was an extraordinary event, and when people marveled at this machine that connected the world.
In the television as I conceive it, two aspects of dream coexist: the luminous and the obscure.
These two faces of dream unfold through different versions of myself within the paintings.
The dreams of my childhood imagination are realized through my own figure performing several professions in a festive atmosphere.
The essence of true dream is revealed through the process by which these images are fragmented and transformed into light. The radiance of this light is projected onto an enlarged screen like a starry night.
I’d Like to Be on TV, digital installation, variable dimensions, 2017
