If we want to try to characterize the effect produced by Sebastian Diaz Morales’s new video works installations Insight, Pasajes and Smoke Signal which compose Ficcionario, his fifth personal extensive exhibition at carlier | gebauer in Berlin, the first words that come to mind are probably those of strangeness and unreality. Face to his videos, we feel troubled, we have the impression not to know anymore where we are, to feel crackling our certainties about the reality of the world we live in.

There is this dotted affirmation that there is no difference between reality and fiction or if we want to preserve after all an independent reality, it obeys to laws completely different from those that we used to accept, that Man lives in the unreality of fiction as well as in the reality.

With Ficcionario, Sebastian Diaz Morales keeps waving between his passion for documentary investigation and his inexhaustible interest for narrative which is both fantastical and steeped in utopian yearning. It is a constantly balancing act between the absurdity of the world, the images of the infinite territory, the despair of gesture and the search for traces illustrating this human quest of significance.