Cristina de Middel. Apoteosis Now

Apoteosis Now is a project from which Cristina de Middel’s photographs are projected onto the museum. Images loaded with facts, intuitions, myths, uncertainties, mutations, visions, totems, and some taboos. An exhibition in Cataract mode, a term the artist uses to define the cascade of images to which this era subjects us, and at the same time, that eye disease that prevents us from seeing them clearly.

Each series here behaves like a small treatise on iconography, a visual novel, a seismograph on the manipulation of reality. And each work can be read as an archive of dreams or as a record of the obstacles that prevent their realization.

Apoteosis Now is set in a world after the end of post-history. Just three decades after the era of yawn, prophesied by Francis Fukuyama, failed without hesitation. And that, at last, we were bored with a boredom that never came.

Without beginning or end, and under a chaotic appearance, in this atmosphere there is, however, an order: of meaning, of intention in the change it proposes for photography, of chromatic treatment, of impact on those who fall into it.

If the Apocalypse inevitably leads us to the abyss, the Apotheosis includes ways to dodge it in this era ruled by Iconocracy. At a time when Cristina de Middel warns us that the avalanche of photographs offered to us is as dangerous as those that are usurped from us. From this conviction, Apoteosis Now conveys that images can not only be used to subjugate us, but also to offer us instruments capable of liberating us: ourselves and our gaze.