The exhibition Alucinación by Colombian artist Sofía Reyes (*1982, Bogotá) is a multilayered collage of fragments that draws attention to the banality of everyday life. In her own words, Reyes describes the exhibition as “a portrait, a document, a test, a love letter, a diagnosis, and a cry for help – all at once.” Her work often stems from an expanded notion of self-portraiture. In Alucinación, she explores the idea that identity emerges from a fleeting, unstoppable flow of data, images, and thoughts—a stream that resists moral or ethical judgment. Reyes weaves together various formats—objects, video, projection—into a cohesive installation.

Hallucination is traditionally defined as “something one sees, hears, feels, or smells that does not actually exist.” In the context of this exhibition, however, the term can be understood as a distinct mode of perception—one that eschews transcendence and questions the boundaries of the categories through which we typically organize lived experience: reality, fiction, simulacrum, intoxication, and others.

Life, Reyes seems to suggest, simply happens—immediately and continuously. It requires no deeper meaning beyond sensory experience. Alucinación thus becomes a reflection on the acceleration of everyday life: an unstoppable sequence of events and data in which the line between subject and what it consumes becomes increasingly blurred.

Alucinación also marks Reyes’s first exhibition in Europe.
The opening of this exhibition is part of Berlin Art Week: Featured.