
Juan David Laserna b. 1980
A Set is, above all, a produced space. It is a place where the circumstances of representation have been designed and controlled. It is the stage set up for cameras to record something: a journalist delivering news, an actor performing, a singer, a clown, a politician in a debate. Thus, an exhibition is not entirely different; it also takes place in a produced space, with specific conditions and designs that allow for a very precise narrative. In both cases, agents, artworks, and discourses are mobilized within a museographic apparatus, and amidst all this, there is an observer who plays a role.
This Set is, in any case, an exercise in translations. Here, some of the rules of the exhibition are set up, accompanied by the artifices of a television set. One can transition from one to the other so that the characters who play roles and the artworks can be seen in any of the staged settings in the room.
In general, the spaces, images, and objects are arranged within a field of ambiguities that propose possible interpretations from either side.