DAY-MARE | NIGHT-LIGHT

Installation

2024

Adhesive vinyl on 2 prismatic pannels
(50 x 50 cm each)

Created for the exhibition Fuck the Margin, originally commissioned by Patronato universitario Gil de Albornoz. Exhibition at Le Grand Garage (Cuenca) and scheduled for a second iteration in Madrid (2026)

Word composition: David García Casado
Especial thanks: Hsien-Yu Cheng

Digital documentation
This work investigates the performativity of language and its capacity to transition into a purely visual phenomenon. The installation functions at the threshold where text dissolves into image, challenging the static nature of linguistic structures through a recombinatory system.

As the spectator moves, the text undergoes a process of physical “editing,” generating shifting word compositions such as day-mare, day-light, night-mare, night-light, and light-light.

The piece operates on a logic of paracinematic montage, where the transition between meanings is dictated by the viewer’s angle of vision rather than a timed projection.