A VOID BETWEEN US

For years Gabriel Orozco has been on the hunt for hollowness, craving the air we breath, the time between events, space across places. It is not clear whether empty interstices exist outside the mind, how can they be measured, filled, tied to our emotions. For example, time between changes -be it only the blink of the eye- is ineffable and thus impossible, perhaps inexistent. Void duration is like a shadow, we can never see its silhouette at a glance. Escapism and vacuity intersect and they do so at the junction of freedom: emptiness cannot be seized without sacrificing its negative power. With its perpetual flight, the void challenges our mind ad infinitum, evoking sublime terrors, amnesia or floating reveries. Floating, as if the sea could be a vast (w)hole, too full to be empty and yet too seamless to be full. Liquid sky that tells us that vacuity is not always ethereal. Orozco knows this. He plays out the void in and around our body. Not sublime but poetic is his tale of halves, bodies and oranges. Fruit: prosaic but perfect, erotic, ripe of color. Oranges turn out to be hollow. Bloody, liquid recipients. In what sense are they interstices? How to rethink our interactions -with food, people, things- with the intensity of a hole in mind? Love can be a starting point, recites Orozco's poem before waning into the void. . .

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"EVERY ACTION IMPLIES AN EMPTY SPACE. THE WAKE AFTER

THE FLIGHT. THE SPACE BETWEEN TWO WAKES THAT

COLLIDED TWO HALVES. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE SPACE

IMMEDIATELY BEHIND THIS BODY? IN THE SPACE BETWEEN

THE TWO WAKES OF AIR WIND? TRIANGLE. LEGS

OPEN. WIND BEHIND THE ACT.

PLUNGING INTO THAT SPACE FULL OF THE VOID

OF THE ACTION. VOID OF THE ACTION OF OPENING

THE LEGS. PLUNGING INT THE VOID OF

A WOMAN WHO EMPTIES THAT SPACE

FULL VOID BETWEEN TWO WAKES

OF A BODY IN ACTION.

BEHIND. IN THE COLUMN THE AIR

THE WIND PASSES AT OUR SIDES.

WE CUT THE AIR AND GENERATE

A VOID BETWEEN US.

THE VOID OF THE UNOCCUPIED.

THE VOID OF OUR ABSENCE.

THE VOID BETWEEN

TWO WAKES OF WIND.

THE KNIFE CUTTING

AND STRIKING AGAINST

THE TABLE. DOUBLE VOID

BETWEEN THE TWO

HALVES OF THE ORANGE AND

BETWEEN THE

TWO SIDES

OF THE

KNIFE

BLADE."