Mauro Giaconi

Arte Abierto collaborates with contemporary artists whose work invites reflection on everyday life, social values, and the perception of reality. Through experimental installations, these creators explore their own creative processes and question established notions, generating spaces where the public can encounter new ways of seeing and thinking.

In this context, Mauro Giaconi presents Temporal Advantage, an installation conceived especially for the exhibition space, which invites the viewer to question notions of truth, reality, and time. In a world riddled with misinformation and fake news, the work proposes a pause to reconsider everything we take for granted and suggests that reality is multiple and constantly changing, where imagination, uncertainty, and reflection transform the act of observing into a profound exploration of contemporary reality.

The piece manifests itself through a ship run aground in a shopping mall, a disturbing image that raises questions about its origin and purpose. Using drawing and graphite as his main tools, Giaconi expands his practice into sculpture and installation, constructing a symbolic narrative where the material, the conceptual, and the sensory come together to blur the boundaries between reality and fiction.

In Mauro's words, "strategies of simulation and visual confusion propose a principle of equivalence that has been used by social resistance movements and political struggles throughout history, generally as a form of survival or defense against a greater threat or oppression. Unlike utopia, these strategies are based on proposing temporary fissures in the perception of reality, to provoke moments of temporary advantage, transforming precariousness or weakness into superiority and strength, or simply to hide in the visible folds."

With a collective and autonomous approach, the work explores the fragility of the materials and symbolic structures of the container—in this case, the ship—addressing issues such as migration, history, craftsmanship, and the tools that shape it.

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