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Funes

Funes is a sculpture of the eponymous character from Kiral World. Funes first appears in Kiral World in the installation ︎︎︎Self-Portrait. He is named after Jorge Luis Borges’ short story "Funes el memorioso", which centers on a man—Funes—who gains the ability to remember everything after an accident.

Dressed in memories from the ︎︎︎Chimemoria project, my Funes addresses this cautionary tale, in which Borges highlights the necessity of forgetting in order to think. The sculpture also explores the entanglements between autobiographical and digital, real and fake memories in an era where transhumanist ambitions largely focus on preserving the brain and its memories forever.

This sculpture of Funes is modeled after the 3D Funes from Self-Portrait and is infused with a scent symbolizing memory itself. More specifically, the sculpture contains a mineral infused with a scent that reconstructs the smell of the legendary madeleine dipped in a linden infusion, described in a pivotal scene from Swann’s Way, the first volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust—a work centered on the theme of involuntary memory.



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