Communitas
2010
Interactive Installation
100 x 100 x 83 cm
Sombras is an interactive installation in which participants cast shadows onto a large projected surface. A depth sensor captures each form in real time; when a participant moves or steps away, their shadow does not vanish but lingers, fading slowly the way a presence fades from a room, while the traces left by previous visitors reappear beneath it. The surface holds a layered record of everyone who has stood there: shadows accumulating, dissolving, and returning through time.
The work connects this experience to the ancient practice of shadow play, one of the earliest tools for storytelling, the ancestor of cinema, brought into the present through a depth sensor and projector. Participants are both performers and audience of their own passing.
This installation was commissioned by the Museum of Toys, San Isidro (Buenos Aires), Argentina, and was on view from June 2012 to June 2013 as part of La Mesa del Tiempo (The Table of Time), an exhibition that explored ancestral games through a contemporary lens.
