Who wants me to want what I think I want?
Who wants me to want what I think I want?
Who wants me to want what I think I want?
Who wants me to want what I think I want?
Tell me what I should sing
Oh, algorithm
I know you know better
Even better than I do
Oh algorithm, Jorge Drexler
Who today doesn't long for a good story full of teachings to hold on to in the midst of so much immediacy and superficiality? Jaime can't help but cling to the nostalgia of a time when everything was yet to be discovered and the birds, the earth, the seas or the planets were our only source of inspiration and guidance. ‘A Game of Gods’ finds in mythology a timeless chroma that gives answers about this chaotic becoming in which people wander so vulnerable and uprooted. The aim is to make us reflect on our place in the world and how ancestral narratives can offer us guidance and solace in times of uncertainty. Like one who picks up the debris left by the ebbing tide, Jaime plays at harmonising the randomness of the cold algorithms that seem to design our lives. Powerful empty degradations in which people, objects and scenarios appear, make up stories that resist being absorbed by the metaverse but coexist in both worlds. In the exercise of contemplation, Jaime is fascinated by the current connection between the human and the natural. Practices such as hiking, landscape engineering, the relationship we have with domestic animals... could we not think of them as almost mythological interventions, what are the consequences of alterations in the ecosystem and our environment, can we interpret them as an attempt to approach the gods themselves? In a reflection of its context and its time, it persists in a narrative activism among so many decorative objects. Characters and everyday scenes that we do not notice or even avoid, take on the power to force us to look and make us aware of latent issues such as gentrification, immigration, social injustices in all areas or collective memory, compromising a system that explodes on its own. With a dogma contained in each title, these contemporary myths take us by the hand to confront the inevitable and delve into our increasingly globalised emotions and conflicts.
Celia Moro Peruyera
