Macarena Vilches Pardo - Statement of Intent

What happens when we spend long stretches of time confined to a small space — a hotel room, for instance?

This installation grows out of a personal experience of confinement and isolation, and the ambivalent relationship I have with enclosed spaces, particularly hotel rooms — places I see as simultaneously transient, sheltering, and imprisoning.

From this experience, the work explores how body and mind are transformed when kept within the same space for an extended period, oscillating between inward withdrawal, exhaustion, and a constant projection toward the outside world.

The installation unfolds within a room at the Hôtel Windsor, transformed through video mapping, animation, sound, and scenographic elements. Together, these devices construct different states of presence within the space and gradually animate a figure — a character who comes to inhabit the room.

The space thus becomes a sensitive, shifting environment in which the interior of the room mirrors a mental state that fluctuates between enclosure and opening.

The viewer is invited to enter this space and experience a fragmented narrative, one in which the intimate and the psychological unfold through image, sound, and the occupation of place.