Paramnésico

Founded in 2005 by Tatiana Halbach (Spain) and Søren Christensen (Denmark), Desilence operates at the intersection of digital art, installation, and moving image. Their practice, rooted in abstract painting, investigates how light, colour, motion, and spatial composition shape perception and emotional experience.

Over the past two decades, the studio has explored the limits of live visuals through immersive environments, live visual performances, stage scenography, installations, and audiovisual works. After a career dedicated to expanding beyond the screen, this exhibition introduces a deliberate constraint. 

Paramnésico takes its title from paramnesia, a condition in which memory loses its reliability, and the boundary between lived experience and imagination begins to blur. For paramnesiacs, dreams can acquire the weight of fact, as if a visual imprint had marked the mind with unusual force, while real events fragment, distort, or reassemble into something partially invented.

The exhibition unfolds within this unstable territory. Memory is approached not as an archive of fixed images, but as an active process of reconstruction — one in which the subconscious edits, suppresses, and reshapes experience until it achieves internal coherence. Rather than illustrating specific narratives, the works explore how images surface, dissolve, and reform in the mind, activating subconscious states in the process, sensations, residues, and echoes.

Conceived as a constellation of suspended fragments, Paramnésico presents each piece as a residue of a dream: incomplete, open, and unresolved, something recalled only partially. The slowed, continuous loops are central to this concept. Duration becomes a tool that prevents closure, allowing images to hover between recollection and invention, as if memory itself were still negotiating its form.