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October 21, 2005
KILLING THE MINOTAUR.
Very spatial, LABYRINTHS comes to open definitely, the space and the architecture of some imaginary space that can be easily built by the images the author describes, even though he became completely blind at the age of 55, this images are set as a labyrinth in a mathematical way in which time and space are two elements related one to each other.
The imaginary space that a mirror can describe, the angle it gives, in whatever position you place it, is going to give its own view, as a determine scene, that never corresponds with “reality”.
The idea of inability (from Theseus)to get inside a labyrinth, or the necessity of having a string of Ariadna (myth of “Ariadna and the Minotaur”) as the only way to get to this animal, and sacrifice it, (Minotaur, biggest falic symbol depredator of virgins, that hides inside the labyrinth).
The same inability to get inside the reality a mirror shows, the same inability that Borges had when he got blind, ironically being a writer.
Killing the Minotaur is ending with our own inabilities.
"Llego a mi centro, / a mi álgebra y mi clave / a mi espejo. / Pronto sabré quién soy". J.L. Borges.
Posted by carolina pino at October 21, 2005 02:10 AM