• Adrián Villar Rojas

    Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte

    In his short essay “Dream Kitsch,” written in 1925, Walter Benjamin employs the metaphor of dust to describe the run-down state of dreams in modernity. Like the disappearance of aura, he says, dreams are no longer removed from concrete experience but are tangible and near. They have lost their romantic dimension, their “blue horizon,” fading into a sad grayness that resembles the polluted atmosphere of everyday life. Adrián Villar Rojas’s dusty installation Lo que el fuego me trajo (What the Fire Brought Me), 2008, phantasmagoric ruins right at hand, is like one of those dilapidated dreams

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