Diarios de navegación

MACRO Museo D’arte Contemporanea di Roma

29 aprile > 2 ottobre 2016

An 88 pieces Wall, with paper as its main material.

Each piece 42 x 29,5 cm.

Papers are buried and rinsed out in HNO3 and H2SO4 in a 68% dissolution.

Nell’era in cui la tecnologia e internet hanno mutato la nostra percezione della realtà, il concetto di tempo resiste e ritma ancora la nostra vita nel rispetto di criteri e grazie a strumenti che sono stati creati dall’uomo centinaia di anni fa.

Il nostro calendario è ancora basato su quello gregoriano, introdotto da oltre quattrocento anni, la giornata è da secoli scandita da ventiquattro ore, e lo strumento che utilizziamo per calcolarla è ancora l’orologio, a cui affidiamo l’organizzazione del nostro tempo personale e collettivo.

The papers from which Diarios de Navegación is composed are my mother’s writings, that I have been collecting once she began attending adult school until she became a victim from Alzheimer. 20 years passed by until she learned to read and write. However, her sickness ripped out from her all of her achievements. Some of the papers are fragmented, damaged or cracked over time. These papers have been treated during one, two, three or four days, with corrosive acids (nitric and sulphuric acids) in a 68% dissolution. This treatment’s ultimate goal is to cause the drop of leaf remainders on the pavement during the sample’s duration, planned for six months and to make it blend with the sample’s heart, which is not other than the breathing of TIME. A work of art alive until its death, with an expiration date.

2016 | 4oo x 350 x 5 cm
Installation; Paper, HNO3 and H2SO4 in a 68% dissolution