"Paola Torres builds what I call a knot of code, and plays with the frontier
of understanding through the different senses; For example, you can be non-deaf, but you can hear the sound,
however you do not understand it, you can be blind and you can understand the braille, but you do not 
understand the sound either ... Actually it is a game of many codes included in one single machine. 
Braille immediately refers to how the senses can limit the perception of certain things of reality. "

Kiko Mayorga
Electronic Engineer and Co-curator of Automatic / Versatile
(Fundación Telefónica, 2008)

"In the work Autorretrato (2007), Paola designs an Interactive Braille Installation that is presented as a 
"Painting for the Blind", seeking to deepen the relation between this disability and the traditional ways of 
approaching a painting, questioning the conventional ways of perceiving them. When visual experience is not 
possible the artist offers the interactive use of sound as a language capable of giving meaning to the formal 
appreciation of art."

Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa
PhD in Hispanic Studies
Columbia University
NYC
2014