Thresholds

We are pleased to share the opening of Thresholds, a sduduo exhibition including works by Karlos Gil  and Manuel Álvarez at Biblioteca Central de Cantabria, Santander.

 

Karlos Gil's Origin was shot in the vast, dark passages under Madrid. Images of the hollow underground are combined with haunting deep listening music in order to interrogate the nature of time and how cinema can shape our conception of past, present and future realities. The film conjures up ghosts of Mesopotamian warriors while predicting human disasters and futuristic alien behavior. Things of ever deeper antiquity seem to wake up and begin their comeback lurking in a smooth subterranean labyrinth

Places are severed from the conventions of time past, present or future where the line between real and imagined becomes uncertain. In that sense, underground chambers are where extraordinary events come to pass, the origin of gods and monsters; fossils and new living systems, of burial and rebirth. Dark, labyrinthine and timeless, underground chambers are places of visions and experiences both sacred and profane

Here the spectator is summoned into a labyrinth of tunnels, an architecture below the recognizable face of the Earth, perhaps beyond the strata of time of human life and of nature itself. As if the narrative had been subsumed to a stream of intangible beings and non-intelligible language, to a world of pure haptic perception and phenomenological experiences

 

Opening  21 March, Thresholds will be on view until 29 April 2026.

 

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8 Apr 2026