Maria Galindo No matter how much you love me, I do not want to belong to you [01_2005] Presentation I can only introduce myself as an impostor. An impostor inside any institutional body, an impostor who gains meaning, courage and strength only from outside the institution, only from outside the system. Outside and not inside. Not from within the art gallery, Not from within the institution, thin acceptance, Not from within legitimacy, thin the system. Because the system is not everything. s not the reality that surrounds us. It is not even a significant part of the reality that surrounds us, which envelops and develops us. It is outside where I find and gain a sense of reality. And even if it sounds like a teenage fantasy, I dare to affirm: outside the system there is no emptiness (the emptiness with which they threaten us). Outside the system there is no vacuous state. Their threats are about expelling us from legitimacy and towards that emptiness, where nothing of what we do, say, feel or dream counts or has any value. It is precisely this threat that we aim to challenge by positioning ourselves outside and not inside the system. If we did not: Where, then, would it be possible to locate all that exists outside a system of privileges? Or is it perhaps that the system has already swallowed it all? Or is there anything that lies outside the administrative system of violence and reputations? The outside certainly exists ...