More than a barrier
A window works two ways depending on the hour. By day, you look through it. By night, once the room behind you is lit and the world outside isn’t, it stops showing you the what is outside and starts reflecting your own space. Most people never really notice the switch. It just happens, and you live with it.
Cuenca’s landscape
Reading what you won’t hear
Intrusiones takes that ordinary flip and builds on top of it. A landscape unfolds on the screen, accelerated, day sliding into night and back, weather shifting, time compressing. Every sound from outside the room becomes a written note that lands on the glass. A passing car. A voice. Rain. The notes don’t fade. They stay, accumulate.
There is no audio track. Each sound exists only as text, so you reconstruct the sound in your head from a few words rather than receiving it directly. As the notes pile up, they start to cover the landscape, your reflection, and each other. You lose the outside view the same way you lose your own space. Not because either was erased on purpose, because each intrusion quietly claimed a piece of the space for itself.
Sound as handwriting
What’s left is only the record
By the end, there’s no clear glass left, no landscape and no reflection either. Just the accumulated evidence of what it was, seeping through the barrier.
Solo show at I+CAS
Quick facts
First show
- 2006
Exhibited at
- I+CAS
- Rosa Santos Gallery
- Vimcorsa
- ...
Thanks to
- Maria Zarraga
First show
- 2006
Thanks to
- Maria Zarraga
Exhibited at
- I+CAS
- Rosa Santos Gallery
- Vimcorsa
- ...
First show
- 2006
Exhibited at
- I+CAS
- Rosa Santos Gallery
- Vimcorsa
- ...
Thanks to
- Maria Zarraga































