Curators' Series #2. Sculpture of The Space Age

"Did you know they did open one of your capsules? Or, at least that is the way they thought about it. Ah, for them it was a big deception, they had the illusion of finding the final clue in it. That is why they eventually discarded it as evidence. They could tell from their scientific research that the piece of film in the metal container had been produced sometime around 1981, but that you had not exposed it until at least a couple of decades after its expiration date. I wondered what were you trying to save or recuperate in that film. Why did you save it for that long?" (from Raimundas Malasauskas' letter to Matthew Young)

Mario Garcia Torres, Stereogram of a Photophobic, 2009. 20 colour slides. Courtesy of the artist.