RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES
April 30 – August 20, 2022
Chapter 1: Julio Aquino, José Eduardo Barajas, Luis Campos, Isabel Cavenecia
Chapter 2: + Marianela Castro, Gerardo Contreras
When a glass of water is spilled over a computer keyboard, minerals and impurities in the water conduct electricity through unexpected paths, causing a short circuit. In the same way, artworks presented in Random Access Memories (or RAM) produce a clash of the digital and physical.
As children of mass media, the artists in Random Access Memories have a fugitive nature — part of a generation who rely on their inconsistent, evasive and dynamic attributes for survival. Visually and conceptually, the artworks slip through the (already dead) original files; to sample and mix the overload of information producing their own fictions.
Memory is flexible. Memories are multiplied, expanded and diluted by our imagination. In contrast to a computer’s hard drive, the RAM is volatile— it retains data as long as the computer is on. For this exhibition(s) Relaciones Públicas mimics the functions of a computer, filling up the RAM until it is no longer capable of processing the data. Relaciones Públicas presents an evolving exhibition, in which artists and artworks will be added to each Volume until the accumulated Random Access Memories overwhelm the gallery and must be rebooted.
In a way, the artworks added to RAM are the exhibition’s software update, but the cup is already spilled and leaks are finding new paths. In that sense, these series of exhibitions reverberate the disk function (and dysfunction): temporarily store the program of the user’s desire.
– Mercedes Gómez Gonzalez
@beggingformerci
(1) “Children of Mass Media even more than being the children of their parents who have much less influence over them”.
Avant-Pop Manifesto, Mark Amerika (1992-1993)
For this exhibition(s) Relaciones Públicas mimics the functions of a computer, filling up the RAM until it is no longer capable of processing the data. Relaciones Públicas presents an evolving exhibition, in which artists and artworks will be added to each Volume until the accumulated Random Access Memories overwhelm the gallery and must be rebooted.
