W.O.R.M. / 2022

Inhabiting the gap between the past and the future means constructing our existence based on past events, generating imaginaries that reflect the moment in which they are born. Christto & Andrew reinterpret these imaginaries with a nostalgia for the futures of the 1960s and 1980s, using photography to project that "past of the future." Despite recurring predictions of the end of the world, we continue to live on borrowed time, accepting the possibility of other worlds and looking nostalgically at what we once expected. The project “2022” reflects these "ruins of the future," with increasingly shortened projections and more catastrophic forecasts. Following Lee Edelman, who states that "there is no imaginary, and it is necessary to build utopias," and Derek Jarman, who claimed to live within a collective without history and, therefore, without a past, the idea arises that many of us inhabit only the present. Those who live in C. D. Broad’s "block universe" have a present with a past but no future. Although the world has "ended" several times, only remnants of what we expected remain. The future has ceased to surprise us with advances like remote communication. In this context, Sarah & Charles explore strategies that embrace contradiction, suspend meaning, and encourage collaboration, creating aesthetic devices that appeal to both visual knowledge and tactile and sensory experiences. Their project “W.O.R.M.” questions incommunication and message loss, not only due to noise but also to the self-reproducibility of content. Concepts such as writing, information, knowledge, and learning are confronted with forms of incommunication and message distortion. In this scenario, Sarah & Charles have decided to position their practice in a search for strategies that embrace contradiction, generating a suspension of meaning. They foster collaborative processes, breaking away from the isolation of the information society, and produce aesthetic devices that appeal not only to visual knowledge but also to the haptic, using tools of production that are not only visual but also experiential and sensory. The exhibition "W.O.R.M. / 2022" is a duo of duos, a collaboration between Christto & Andrew and Sarah & Charles, who, through their complementary approaches, explore the gap between the past and the future, questioning incommunication and message distortion. Together, they present an experience that fuses the visual, the tactile, and the sensory, challenging our perceptions of time and knowledge.