CONTEMPORARY ART  

We live in an increasingly mediated world, shaped by the constant and growing use of new technologies. In this context, our perception of reality and our ways of communicating are being quietly yet profoundly transformed. A new landscape emerges—one in which human experience tends toward uniformity, while a global network concentrates and distributes an endless flow of information, relationships, and representations. Cybernetic systems are beginning to define a new human condition: telepresence. Our bodies are no longer entirely where they exist; they become dislocated, fragmented, projected. This dissociation raises not only a spatial issue, but also a social tension: how do we relate to others and to the world when our presence becomes diffuse? Amid this constant acceleration, machines advance with increasing vitality, while our bodies and our attention seem to grow more passive. Speed no longer belongs to us; it passes through us. Close emerges as an invitation to interrupt that rhythm—to pause and question the direction of this technological drive which, without an ethical and humanistic foundation, risks emptying experience of meaning. To come close—truly close—thus becomes a radical gesture.