Nicolás Jaar presents his book 'Isole'

Below the ocean lies another ocean, dormant, and the islands recounted by Nicolas Jaar are the dreams that emerge from its buried depths, told with a musical language that is simultaneously profoundly visual.

Images crystallized in the impossible time of fables, revelations, hallucinations, myth; worlds where nothing is ever what it seems and everything unravels in an underground plot resonating with meaning like a dream one struggles to remember: wells murmur in the language of God, ecstasy nestles among the planks of a wooden floor, skin becomes the parchment to entrust one’s messages, and from the amplifiers – the most precious weapon against the atrocities of oppressors – echo simulated shots and songs of resistance.

Successful musician and producer making his literary debut, Nicolás Jaar crafts a shifting mosaic where images flow and recur like loops, overlay like samples, reverberate like echoes in a minimal and prismatic plot whose fragments fade and resurface transfigured. Thus, fairy tale gives way to revelation; historical account to poetry; prayer to theater piece.

To explore these islands is to delve into an abyss of symbols that seem inexhaustible, elusive fragments of meaning that leave a profound mark in our memory, like the reflections of Recimo’s magic mirrors, whose tranquil distortions infect minds with a mysterious calm resembling a spell, or a curse.