Rubén Ortiz-Torres

Capital Pecado the new space of the colección Alma Colectiva invites you to the presentation of the publication Ahí viene la plaga by Rubén Ortiz-Torres.

Ahí Viene la Plaga will be, according to different interpretations, the "chronicle of resistance." The book of the "doomed" and the lonely or the manual of solidarity - in any case, a modest and calculated work that Rubén Ortiz Torres sometimes hesitated to make during a year of gestation, maturation, and difficult development. I am the substitute for the plague," cried Caligula, the mad emperor. Soon, the "plague" spread around the world amid police brutality, marches, and protests. The plague perpetuates these days of darkness, this "collective passion" of a mad world. In the face of suffering as much as death, the boredom of restarting, "Ahí viene la plaga" illustrates observed behaviors. It imposes on us the vision of a universe without a future or purpose where the drama itself ceases to seem dramatic and is impregnated with macabre humor and where people are less defined by their approach, language, and the weight of their flesh than by their silences, their secret wounds, their projected shadows, and their reactions to the challenges of existence.

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