If I’m the corpse, there must be a weapon

There is no body in the strict sense, yet there is enough evidence to suggest that something has happened, that certain images have silently reshaped the way we look and, with it, the way we desire. The screen is not a boundary but a portal: a threshold of overexposure where impact does not strike, but clings. We may be facing a kind of weapon that is difficult to identify, precisely because it possesses all the qualities required to be desired. In this context, artist Meritxell Cañas’s exhibition, presented at Malpaís as part of the Art Nou festival, explores the relationship between digital images, desire, and childhood through sculptural forms in which the familiar intertwines with the uncanny, challenging the way we look.