Rodrigo Cacho

Rodrigo Cacho
“To know but then guess”
2025
Volcanic rock, mortar, cement and rebar
270x160x80cm

“To know but then guess” presents two contrasting faces—two opposing ways of relating to the world. One side features a high relief, a textured imprint of the landscape as captured in a photograph taken on a specific day. It serves as a record—a primitive gesture of preservation, a tactile memory carved in stone. This side seeks to hold onto something fleeting: the way things were. Should the landscape change, the relief will quietly reveal the difference. It’s a deliberate, almost archaic act of witnessing—of saying: This is what I saw. Let this be remembered.

The opposite side displays seven digits—seemingly meaningful. They could be coordinates, a date, a code, a reference to the land itself. But they are none of those. They are randomly generated by an AI. This side embodies a different truth: in an age of limitless choices, we increasingly relinquish decision-making to algorithms. It is a monument not to what is seen, but to how we now choose—not through intuition or observation, but by delegation. Where one side carves memory, the other embraces randomness disguised as logic.

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