TECHNÉ

Installation

Techné brings together hybrid instruments based on textile tools, precinematic devices, and historical drawing machines. Drawing on perspectival systems associated with Leon Battista Alberti and Albrecht Dürer, as well as the optical principles of the camera obscura, the work examines techniques through which reality has been translated into images—particularly perspective, projection, and reflected light.

In the central installation, visual rays become material. Monochromatic threads pass through a perforated panel and extend towards a gallery column, around which they form a spatial enclosure. What once functioned as an auxiliary element for drawing becomes a physical structure that reorganises the exhibition space.

The title invokes techné: art and craft understood as forms of knowledge through which things are brought into existence. Textile processes operate here not simply as methods of construction, but as ways of thinking materially about perception, representation, and the production of images.

Text developed from an essay by César Gabler, originally published in La Panera, no. 28, Santiago, Chile.