CTRL_ABSENCE, Solo Exhibition at Fellowship
London, 2025

EXIT STRATEGY / CTRL_ABSENCE
2025

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CTRL_ABSENCE unfolds as a meditation on disappearance in the age of simulation. If identity is always hybrid and negotiated across cultural and technological interfaces, what remains when the figure is erased and only a trace or gesture is left? The project situates this erasure within a media environment that is constantly reshaping perception. Here, the medium of artificial intelligence does not preserve identity but simulates its disintegration, producing a simulacrum of collapse rather than collapse itself. If identity is a process of becoming, this raises further questions: is absence a disappearance, or a reconfiguration in another register of meaning? As the work stages entropy through digital tools built for optimization, it leaves the viewer within the paradox of our time, where images do not simply represent but replace, where the void is not silence but a multiplied visual echos, and where looking becomes a negotiation with ruins that were never whole to begin with.

Alejandro Cartagena

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BLUE SIDE / CTRL_ABSENCE
2025