Armin Linke - Blind Sensorium: Antropología visual

Armin Linke
Blind Sensorium: Antropología visual
March 12–May 20, 2021

The Center for Contemporary Creation Matadero Madrid presents Blind Sensorium: Antropología visual, the result of a long-term collaboration between Armin Linke with Fundació Sorigué based on research, for the creation of an extensive project on the Anthropocene, which has been presented in the context of European cultural exhibitions and programs in recent years. This exhibition, which represents the first solo presentation in Spain of Armin Linke's work, combines different aspects of the investigation, presenting a selection of elements dedicated to the relationship between planetary ecosystems, political institutions and scientific infrastructures through a visual analysis of the conflictive spaces of climate change.

Armin Linke's work focuses on documenting the effects of globalization and infrastructure on different local populations to show that the modern world is a massive profusion of data, where the material infrastructures—consisting of computer centers, data highways and server rooms—are largely invisible. The knowledge generated by this technological sensorium is characterized by the blind spots of its own implication in the accelerated exploitation of nature.

Through this exhibition, the artist proposes a visual approach to climate change and its material landscape from a rigorous and reflective perspective. The video installation Blind Sensorium is a synthesis of more than ten years of fieldwork by Armin Linke and his collaborators Giulia Bruno and Giuseppe Ielasi. Using both photography and film, they have produced a visual anthropology of the politics of climate change. They asked: What is the role of images and representation in this political landscape? What does it mean to observe processes of which one is inherently a part?