Born in 1963, Roberto Cabot spent his childhood, and part of his adolescence, between New York and Paris. Initially trained as an architect in Rio and Paris, finally, he decided to finish his studies into l'École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he studied with Pierre Alechinsky (co-founder of CoBrA Group in early 1950). Since then, her career has taken him to Düsseldorf, Cologne and Madrid, returning nowadays to Rio de Janeiro where he has established his studio.

The exhibition presented in the Museu de Arte Moderna has fifteen pieces among which are recent works, some emblematic pieces of the '90 and series of drawings. This time, his work, always characterized by use of digital media and the Internet, has used as an argument the word "Aleph" —recognized in the work of Jorge Luis Borges as "a huge moment, the simultaneous total of all"— in looking for a total character work. Therefore, the viewer's presence is especially important.

Registered at all times by a camera that captures the successive movements of the viewer and projected on a screen, his presence (of the spectator) becomes part of a coral performative conception in real-time. Visitors can regain its image via the web from anywhere or look through the camera what is happening in any part of the exhibition. A challenge that defies the limits of physical space of the exhibition hall, and make operate the artwork through multiple points of view.

The piece called Machine (2011) is also in the exhibition. A sculpture with totemic character, consisting on mirrors of different transparent materials. It brings together different images —such as a painting of his studio or a book on Velázquez—, in an attempt to draw attention to the different status of the image based on its location. The Quest of the Aleph can be seen in the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro from May 6 to June 26. Alejandro Martínez

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