Nothing Real Matters
Eva Bensasson and Manuel Saiz, 2002
Nothing Real Matters presents a selection of objects
and ideas exploring what can be [made to be] real. This proposal for an
exhibition resulted from a collaboration between Eva Bensasson and Manuel
Saiz in 2002. A variety of approaches were used to reflect on subjects
that include the relationship between a historic fact and its document;
digital manipulation in blockbuster films; the stock exchange and the
future; new technologies and scientific methodology.
Collective understandings of what has happened in the past and what is
happening in the present have been shown to be highly volatile and open
to manipulation. Yet through the daily repetition of common words and
events consensus on what is real – or how to live without paying
the question too much attention – have developed. Reality is a set
of ideas that have already been much scrambled. Documentary and advertising
styles alike build up formidable aesthetics of “realness”.
This exhibition reflects on these issues.
 Image kindly created by Aurelio Vicente for Nothing Real Matters. |