INSTALLATION LIGA 13. Mexico City.

By Gerardo Caballero

From here to there, from there to here. To look inside you have to do it from the outside, as well as to look outside you have to do it from within. In either of the two actions a displacement is necessary. It can be physical or conceptual, but the journey must occur: as a concrete fact or as an intellectual factor; a real or imaginary journey to one side in order to perceive the other; a trip that allows you to see yourself from another place. To see the house itself you have to do it from the sidewalk opposite. Just as when one travels to another place and obtains enough distance to see more clearly what has been left behind, so from the proper place one can observe and better understand distant things. Why does someone who looks at something for the first time see more than the one who looks at it all the time? To understand what surrounds us, to see the context of our actions, it is essential to preserve the attitude of the original observer, the one who watches without taking sides, an observer who walks his gaze equally on every detail of everything that surrounds him without discriminating between the important and the banal. The simultaneous simplicity and complexity of the work of Diego Arraigada seems to find an explanation about the constant being, based on an action that oscillates between these two positions: between the distant and the near, the profound and the anodyne, between the native and the foreign , the specific and the universal. Focuses and blurs the look, understands the same with distance, the alien from close. All this happens intellectually in that intermediate space that, like an imaginary or real tunnel, links both worlds, coming and going, bringing and bringing, tirelessly, from here to there and from there to here.