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122 PALABRAS TACHADAS O ALGUNAS COSAS DE MI SER ALLÍ
(122 crossed out words or something about my being there)
2008, Video-installation
Mahn oh Mahn, Emerson Gallery Berlin
Materials: DVD, 19min 46 s. (loop). 0,75 x 1 x 0,40 m. MDF, Plexyglass. A3 paper.
This work, operating between writing and drawing, is a reflection on the dialectic process of creation.
My hand writes in my native language (Spanish) on a white sheet of A3 paper. The words describe my existential coordinates: where I am, the date, my name, birthplace, other people’s definitions of myself, and so on. As I write each word, I immediately cross it out - one word after the other, precisely, systematically, obsessively. Like an attempt to exaggerate one´s signature to the point of making it an error, an uncertainty, a contradiction inherent to its own freedom, to the human ability of destroying to then create and of creating to then destroy …
122 palabras tachadas o algunas cosas de mi ser allí turns scribble into drawing, mistaken sign into art work, triggering the paradox of creation.
video stills
(122 crossed out words or something about my being there)
2008, Video-installation
Mahn oh Mahn, Emerson Gallery Berlin
Materials: DVD, 19min 46 s. (loop). 0,75 x 1 x 0,40 m. MDF, Plexyglass. A3 paper.
This work, operating between writing and drawing, is a reflection on the dialectic process of creation.
My hand writes in my native language (Spanish) on a white sheet of A3 paper. The words describe my existential coordinates: where I am, the date, my name, birthplace, other people’s definitions of myself, and so on. As I write each word, I immediately cross it out - one word after the other, precisely, systematically, obsessively. Like an attempt to exaggerate one´s signature to the point of making it an error, an uncertainty, a contradiction inherent to its own freedom, to the human ability of destroying to then create and of creating to then destroy …
122 palabras tachadas o algunas cosas de mi ser allí turns scribble into drawing, mistaken sign into art work, triggering the paradox of creation.
video stills