August 27 to September 24, 2005, Installation
Paulina del Paso
The idea may seem aberrational, but the stories and images generated in the “dream factory” (and nightmares) known as Disney form an undeniable part of the cultural baggage of several generations in many regions of the world. The brand has long been established as a synonym for childhood: to the extent that we could spend days discussing the extent to which Disney has managed to touch fundamental fibers of what it means to be a boy or a girl in the twentieth century (and now in the twenty-first), and to what extent it has been forming the children’s public in his image and likeness. 
Bambino– which means boy in Italian– starts from one of the most representative moments of the Disney mythology and takes it to the limit. The certainty of a happy ending is what makes suffering bearable in its cartoon films. Paulina del Paso does not allow us this certainty, her installation is like a record that has been scratched at its most strident point and hopelessly repeats the irregular rhythm of fear, the languid laments of loss and the endless echo of loneliness.