Topographies of the Uncertain

At a time when the visible no longer guarantees understanding or stability, these four works propose different ways of navigating the uncertain: bodies, images, atmospheres, and thoughts that float, disintegrate, fragment, and reveal themselves from the hidden.

In Streams, Gabriele Rossi immerses our bodies in a current that, far from resisting, invites us to surrender to the flow. Water—an element that gives form without holding it back—becomes a metaphor for survival: only by yielding to the current can we emerge, rediscovering new meaning in abstraction.

In Night Trawler, Michael Fleming casts nets into the dreamlike. His montage of found images drags us through a sea of ​​free associations, where the logic of the dream replaces that of the narrative. The absurd and the disjointed paradoxically reveal a more intimate truth: that of overflowing thought.

Phantasia, by Jorge Moneo, proposes a visual archaeology: X-rayed sculptures reveal layers invisible to the human eye, uniting the dawn of cinema and modern medicine in a single scopic impulse. Between the physical and the spectral, these images resonate with an unnoticed, almost ghostly beauty: specters that speak to both the technical and the poetic.

Finally, Atmospheric Inquiries by Maia Gattas intervenes in the scientific archive to observe the coexistence between humans, technologies, and natural forces. Through found footage, the artist reveals a choreography between control and uncertainty, between weather forecasting and the uncontrollable environment. In this dialogue between data and landscapes, the atmosphere becomes a political and aesthetic space.

These works, together, immerse us in a territory where the intangible becomes form: a journey through mental, physical, and technological landscapes that resist clarity and inhabit the in-between.

Text by Rebeca M. Urízar