Tales of Incompleteness follows a process started in winter, when a group of artists and researchers joined in an “Incomplete Reading Group.” Together, they explored the way in which tales of linear progress gave way to what they called “broken lines of progress”: de-centered, incomplete. Storylines that in a geometrical explosion determine our present condition. A narration in motion that confronts us with an analog inertia – as was the promise of an idyllic future and its ideological bankruptcy and unavailability some generations ago. What are these lines? What shapes do they have? Do they have any taste? How do they inform ways in which the past is called to order, so as to fit an imagined future?

In the course of the reading sessions, the group discussed a variety of material, among which theoretical essays by B. Berardi, H. Marcuse, B. Colomina, a short story by J-L. Borges, artists’ writings by T. Hoffmann and H. Steyerl, excerpts from a novel by R. Walser and from the films Soy Cuba, and La Haine. The reading notes that were collected and the dialogues that took place inspired a series of works that will be unfolded during an exhibition and public program.

Tales of Incompleteness also includes works by three guest artists whose practices not only strongly resonate with, but also further the questions raised by the group.

In Goleb, processes, forms and ideas come together, creating a narrative punctuated by the different voices of the artists, and the way they understand today the notion of progress inherited from modernity. Just like when one unfolds a paper sheet with multiple pleats, each artistic proposal will appear over a three-weekend period in changing arrangements, sometimes taking on different configurations.

Tales of Incompleteness is finally the occasion to bring to life the kitchen that La Cocina_ had initially envisaged: a kitchen understood as a complex political construction, but also as a place where we meet every day to feed ourselves. In kitchens, major ideological transformations are experienced in the most intimate manner. On the other hand, it is impossible to imagine a home without a kitchen. Then, it might be that in this delicate balance between the domestic and design, politics and the public, one can find the relevance that such a device signifies for a place for art.