ENRIQUE ROTTENBERG

In this project, each piece is a movement from the masses to the self, from the artificial mass to the individual subject: man-mass, woman-mass, people-mass... giving rise to the people who are majority minorities, hosting them, opening a space for their becoming.

 

Works in permanent opposition to the canons that leave people two ways to be included: as manipulated or as marginalized.

 

Social mechanisms unfold on large formats, articulated bodies, connections, forming machine-like devices which consensus engineering puts into motion. Institutions create a power mechanism based on consensus engineering, due to which individuals can’t desire to leave the consensus.

 

These are photo installations of social installations, which make one or the other of its constructive elements visible, all acting on us without us actually realizing it, alienating elements brought to evidence. From its scaffolding emerges a social imaginary for minorities as those are not represented in the consensus model.

 

This project doesn’t analyze or try to understand if such engineering actually exists, or how it is designed, it displays the disciplined behavior of the masses and the individual before large institutions, and also within the small societies in which they coexist.

 

From this work of making visible the behavior of mass being which we are used to, and of which we are insensibly part of, what is surprising is the effect: Rottenberg’s photo installations, far from reproducing the effacement of the individual, enhance the uniqueness of each One; they make the individual rebels himself from his anonymity.