4. About (spi)ritual OMnipotence

The installation includes some of the typical characteristic of religious rites:
• Symbolic gestures
(hand washing)

• Full-body involvement
(encouraged by a restriction of the visual experience in favour of audio-tactile stimuli)

• Therapeutic potential

The particularity of this ritual lies in its approach which is completely demystifying. The interactive experience of hand cleansing allows the installation user to comprehend that the whole purification ritual is founded onto perceptive illusions. In this manner, the media stimulated psychotic immersion gets deliberately defictionalized. The solicitation of experience and awareness is controversial when compared to ecclesiastical rites supported by unquestionable truths called dogmas.

Nonetheless, it is precisely because this fluid-filled vessel installation functions as a Black Hole in Reality, an empty space onto which is possible to project one’s own desires, fears or distorted perceptions, that one can evoke the phantasmatic surplus value that enables the:
CREATION OF SOMETHING (autocurative experience) OUT OF NOTHING (virtual simulation).