Is humanity in a terminal crisis or in an era of light-speed revolutions? Perhaps, as in quantum mechanics, in both processes at the same time. These are some of the key themes, examined by The Bass Museum. The institution inaugurated the spectacular new works by Adrián Villar Rojas with Mariana Telleria opened during Art Basel Miami.

Titled El fin de la imaginación, the work comprises site-specific installations and sculptures by Adrián Villar Rojas, and newly contextualized presentations of clay works from his archive.  The installation includes two sculptures by Argentinian artist Mariana Telleria who joins him with two works that challenge contemporary notions of monuments and memorials.

The exhibition invites viewers to be explorers of the unpredictable microcosmos while probing existential questions related to the temporality of humanity and the ephemerality of nature.

“Just as the market price of gold, or any other precious heavy metal, would fall dramatically if mining corporations were able to ship a three-billion-dollar gold, copper, iron or lithium asteroid to the Earth, thus triggering an authentic revolution, or even a catastrophe, in the world economy, Villar Rojas’ hypothesis is that colonization of space and celestial bodies will trigger a multidimensional epistemic reaction chain in our way to understand the past, present and future of our memorialization practices, as well as to produce new ones in this amplified context.” The curatorial statement reads.