The Room of Absence — Elena Greta Falcini
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Elena Greta Falcini was one of the participants in the Virtual Artist in Residence program in February and March 2022. Belgrade Artist in Residence.
The Room of Absence
'Being in one's shoes' is literally the catch. Strange shoes, more like footprints in an alien matter. Then there is the formula of that matter and the image of IT. It is odd how in an attempt of assuming literal, which is the same as being literal, the horizon was breached and the view expended into the microscopic and symbolic realm. So, we have a NO-ONE in his shoes, an image of nothing, or rather the interpretation of the gaze of the electron and the latter stand in for it, the formula. There is the image, shoes and letters for what there isn't — the subject and its strange object.
Like the stuff 'the dreams are made off' — nothing — this room is filled with fiction — an impetus to assume.
There is something, though, and it's not in the room and that something is matter. Which is a weird way to phrase it and even weirder decision to end the sentence like that. Nevertheless, the right way. For, it is matter. For anyone who dares to attach simplicity to such an endeavor, and achievement, let first the same one try to just simply think the subject. Well, one can't, but what one can recommend to such one is to appraise that matter for that is the closest one can and will ever get to the subject. Subject is in the other room missing — filling the ABSENCE — and in here we have the stand in for it — the alien matter. Alien, not because of some unruly connotation, but because matter is by default strange — an alien recourse to our fictions.
There was something to be said, by the subject-missing, and that something was: "Material in its autonomy". Which is also an odd statement, because, what material stands in its autonomy?! Well, this is the ONE, that one that stands (out). It is very difficult for a material to stand autonomously, given that material is, by default, in-a-relation to something. Well, this material, these shoes in this room, are standing (out) in this room, almost autonomously — for there is no subject to pair them to. But, there is a formula for that matter, and formula is a kind of thought, so the thought is there — in the image, in the formula, in the shoes — but the subject is not.
There is a room. There is an absence. And there is matter — standing in.