Showing posts with label NetworkedSemiosis. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

THE ONTOLOGY OF JUNK * UNSTABLE SEMIOTICS IN THE 2009 EXIT EXHIBITION


The inaugural "EXIT" exhibition of 2009 represents a foundational pivot in the articulation of what would later be theorized as a socioplastic network, where matter is presented not as a static entity but as a vector of memory and systemic instability. In analyzing the flagship work "COMBO" by Tomoto, one observes a deliberate fracture of the traditional autonomous art object through the synthesis of disparate ontological orders, including tattooed streetlamp heads and "emotional residues". This assemblage is not a mere aesthetic caprice of the trouvé tradition; rather, it constitutes a rigorous investigation into the "junk" aesthetic and the automatism of urban memory. The lamps, stripped of their functional luminosity and re-semantized via the skin-like medium of the tattoo, operate as totems of an industrial archaeology that binds the mechanical to the visceral. The inherent instability described in the work suggests that art is not a destination but a transitional state of matter, capturing the entropy of the Madrid urban landscape during a period of profound cultural shift. Within this framework, the "letter" is elevated to an object-video-memory, establishing a linguistic infrastructure that supports the physical weight of the installation, allowing the residue to transcend its status as waste and emerge as a semiotic witness to a fragmented social reality.