Open Studio #2: Come Back Tomorrow | N. Samara Guzmán Fernández
From October 7, 2013 to February 9, 2014
Appendix:
Meriç Algün Ringborg · Allen Bukoff · Miguel Calderón · Edgar Cobián · Minerva Cuevas · Jose Dávila · Dr. Lakra · Gonzalo Lebrija · Sarah Lucas · Rubén Méndez · Roman Ondák · Adrián Procel · Luis Miguel Suro · Ignacio Uriarte · Danh Vo
The installation Come Back Tomorrow reflects on process and bureaucracy from a Kafkaesque perspective, where the absurdity of the scales is merely apparent, as it contributes to the motivation needed to complete procedures and obtain a commercially valuable piece.
Guzmán Fernández’s work reproduces, highlights, or amplifies the absurdity in bureaucratic processes, paperwork, and institutional rules. Bureaucracy as an entity that regulates and records our existence—the great power behind a desk that organizes and decides over our time, where reasons are opaque, closed, inflexible, and mysterious—is what obsesses the artist. Often imbued with a sharp humor, her work reflects on these processes, and rather than condemning these paths, it finds in their monotony and consumption of time, energy, and resources a motivation and a reason for existence in itself.
In Come Back Tomorrow , the artist presents different parts that make up the bureaucratic process, offering the visitor a pre-established path to complete the procedure and access the hidden node of the exhibition and its appendix. However, there are always shortcuts or alternative routes that modify the initially proposed path.