Límite, Parafeno
Space: public space (Palacio de la Prensa Callao’s screens)
Dates:16-26 April, 2026
Límite is an audiovisual piece inspired by cellular automata systems, such as John Conway’s Game of Life, exploring the human desire to delegate reason, memory, and imagination to systems that exceed us. The work imagines the emergence of a disembodied subjectivity that, within an infinite feedback loop, acquires its own narrative will.
The piece follows this entity through a process of exponentially complex self-organization, suggesting that beyond a certain threshold lies something that surpasses the individual: the implosion of symbols, the bare pulse of what is humanly immeasurable—the glow, the monolith, the angel, the technological sublime. Functioning as a commentary on late postmodernity in resonance with Frederic Jameson, Límite attempts to read structures not designed to be read by us, mapping the forces that produce and reproduce the world, and confronting the viewer with a shift in order where the machine becomes subject and the extension of the zeitgeist.
Parafeno. Visual artist based in Madrid, interested in telling stories that, beneath a tender surface, conceal a deeper search: an unknown longing for the sublime, approached through an intimate and seemingly innocent gaze. Drawn from an early age to the narrative language of video games and fascinated by the infinite possibilities of the digital medium, his practice seeks to evoke in the viewer that fragile, unsettling yet gentle sensation of a child navigating the complexities of an adult world.