With this exhibition, 'Digital Afterlife' of Marta Galindo García, the cycle of selected projects of the 2021 call for the start Program in Córdoba begins.

Gilbert Simondon described death not as the elimination of individuality but as a hole left by that individuality. What does this mean? In reality, when an individual dies, s/he does not cease to be present; it is just that his or her presence, instead of being filled, feels hollow. We sense it everywhere but as a hole in reality, as if something or someone were missing: I miss you, I feel you but can't find you, I perceive you but can’t see you, I speak to you but you don't answer, I weep for you and you don't comfort me. I quite like this notion of death, because it’s curious... when a person (or a relationship, a project, a house, a place) dies, they often become more present than when they were alive, and I think this is because of the hole they leave behind, the abyss, the dizzying chasm. What can you do with the abyss other than fall into it?

The obvious answer is, I think, the body of data, which helps us to revive the presence of someone who has left us. But to what degree is that revival not a reviving of the hole? I think the interesting thing about the politics of grief is precisely that their purpose isn't to eliminate the hole, the lack, the absence, but rather to give us tools, spaces, places, dynamics, rituals that help us to cope with it a fact, a piece of data where we can go to grieve.

This exhibition will soon have a catalog whose texts have been prepared by the curator Marta Echaves and Alejandra López Gabrielidis.