La máquina sueña con humo

The Machine Dreams of Smoke stems from the Museo Reina Sofía's invitation to Eli Cortiñas (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1979) to revisit The Most Given of Givens [Lo más dado de lo dado], a video work produced by the artist in 2016 and recently acquired for the Museum's Collections. The exhibition proposal takes up, expands and updates an investigation initiated by the artist more than a decade ago, in which she addresses the relationships between the history of cinema, the history of museums and recent digital culture from a perspective that reveals a complex colonial apparatus that shapes the gaze and the construction of imaginaries and knowledge.