Galician houses / Casas gallegas

40 pp 500 catalogs. 1/1 printed color, cyclus offset paper 80 g. T. 680 x 480 mm open.


I suspend against the exterior walls of detached family homes in Galicia. The journey from house to house aimed tocover as large an area of Galicia as possible, depending on the spontaneous invitations received from homeowners.

 

//  Me suspendo en el exterior de casas unifamiliares gallegas. El itinerario, con el que pretendo abarcar la mayor extensión posible del territorio gallego, se crea según la invitación espontánea de cada propietario.

 



Seated Men / Hombres sentados

40 pp 500 catalogs. 1/1 printed color, cyclus offset paper 80 g. T. 680 x 480 mm open.

 

I ask male residents of Madrid who are over 70 to make a continuous and unintelligible sound for a minute while I photograph and video record the tops of their heads from above. SEATED MEN seeks artistic insertion on the aged bodies of elderly men. These men are represented as intense physical and emotional material.

The sounds they emit burst into the project and provide real and tangible information about their bodies, bodies with which I continue to analyze the language and procedural principles of sculpture itself. I am interested in the physicality of aged bodies; I understand their burden, the intensity of their materialness and I feel profound respect towards them.

The voluntary offering of each man, through their willingness to let me tape the top of their heads, is an in-depth look at the profound sense of anonymity that I am pursuing. The angle that is shown in the videos and photographs is, for me, an extremely intimate perspective, and for that I need (+)