It's only true what happens every three hundred nights'.

 

"Solo es verdad lo que sucede cada trescientas noches is a project that questions some of the devices that are both structure and transmission between the realm of enunciation and the empirical, between words and things. Thus, the works of Andrés García Vidal, Cristina Mejías, Mercedes Pimiento and the Alegría y Piñero collective, affect the consistency and generation of discourses, their flow, their rhythm and their dominance, as well as the effects of power-doing-there, the social collective and the bodies that make it up.

The title of the exhibition is taken from "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", a short story published by Borges in 1940 in which he details various aspects of the planet Tlön. In this imaginary region, idealism is common sense and science as a discipline does not exist. Also, the metaphysicians of this planet judge that this branch of philosophy belongs to the field of fantastic literature and its task is not the search for truth. In Tlön, perception is what governs the existence of bodies, and bodies only live as long as they are perceived. Their devices, those that make something thinkable and those that give rise to truth, are different. And this only happens every three hundred nights. As Borges progresses through the story, our idea of reality breaks down. Little by little, the world of Tlön parasitizes it, and, in contact with it, some of the devices that structure our existence, such as language and history, disintegrate. Soon the world will be Tlön.