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Jose Dávila in Tacticas del Glitch

In the digital realm, a glitch is a tiny defect that arises in a system’s development without stopping it from working. In fact, in video games, even though glitches are unexpected, players can sometimes turn them to their own advantage. With such maneuvers in mind, this exhibition explores artistic practices in the MUAC collection that use the opportunities in errors to intervene in the fabric of history. In these artworks, glitches work through addition or elimination to tie together temporally and spatially discontinuous events and contexts. The artists presented in this section ground their work in slippage, using glitch tactics to draw us gently and cunningly into interstitial zones that challenge the stories that reside in us.