Alicia Sibón Galdames

The central theme of her work has been the plastic and political quality of low-resolution images, questioning visibility—a concept linked to social success—which begins with the act of exposure. This has continued to focus on the well-known weariness that is universally assumed to be generated by images, leading to the idea that if an image is pixelated, it is because it wants to hide.

Today, no place remains unmapped. Everything is mapped, measured, and exploited under the condition of visibility. Nothing is hidden from the eye that seeks to maximize production. Everything visible is exposed to exploitation. Graphic capture technologies collect and encode based on economic activity and, therefore, consumption.

Under the aspiration of professional and social success, we find ourselves immersed in a network of production, relationships, and connectivity that is increasingly incompatible with slowness, rest, and contemplation, not to mention the widespread consideration of these latter activities as pursuits not for enjoyment but for efficiency. Changing the direction of resting to work towards dedicating work to rest (or rest to rest) as resistance.