Hole

Hole is an audiovisual installation that proposes the continuity of the exhibition space by opening a window into another place—the Monegros desert in Pina de Ebro (Zaragoza). The work exists in the space created between two projections: the void that is traversed by a person leaping from one plane (the wall) to another (the floor), falling into the hole. This void is mentally shaped by the viewer as they complete the proposed visual sequence.

“We mold clay to form a vessel;
from its emptiness comes its use.
We open doors and windows in a house;
from their emptiness comes the function of the house.
Therefore, we gain from what is,
but we are served by what is not.”

Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
(4th century BCE)

The empty space between the projections becomes the medium through which the viewer completes the action mentally. The piece requires the spectator’s presence—it exists only when observed. The same perceptual principle that allows us to close an incomplete circle operates here in three dimensions.

This principle, known as the “Law of Closure” (from Gestalt perceptual theory), explains how individuals tend to complete open stimuli or unfinished sequences. Since the movement involves a real person running, the sequence is naturally completed by the observer—so much so that it becomes difficult not to complete it, as the cognitive mechanisms that resolve it function beyond conscious control.

Ultimately, it is a technique for shaping space—a technique for shaping the void.