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Details: Object
trouvé Installation.
The material used for the installation Cosas
que nunca he escrito (Things that I have never written) consists
of written papers that I usually found on my everyday way in the city.
I have been
collecting these peculiar papers from April 1999.
Everything began one evening in the tube when I found a folded letter
while waiting for the train. I was going to my studio when I saw this
folded hand-written paper. I took it from the floor and began to read.
It said the following:
(...) Dear Mariona,
It is 17.30 and I am now at the Barcelona airport waiting for a plane
that has by now a delay of 1 hour. I mean, it was supposed to land off
at 18.30 and now we will have to wait, in principle, till 19.30.
(...)
It was a letter but I was not its addressee, and Mariona was not there.
Who could be Mariona? After reading, I folded the paper again as I found
it and kept it with me. I wondered if this paper that was now with me
was a fragment of a letter, if there existed a final version in Mariona’s
possession, if my unknown writer ever finished her letter, if she ever
took the plane, if she ever met her friend again, if... I folded the
paper and took the train that was arriving at the station. Some hours
later, when traveling back home from my studio, I saw a similar folded
paper on a wagon’s floor. It was a paper written on both sides
and folded three times. I took it and unfolded it. I began to read: they
were a tourism student notes. It read:
free time time off after the everyday obligations
leisure time time that we dedicate to non productive occupations
(consume)
recreation group of activities that we realise
during our leisure time
I kept these documents and added them to others that I already had
and, little by little, I began creating the narrative corpus of
this installation. I just have to go to find the pages of a book that
is already
written: I just have to collect the pieces, recover them form oblivion
and assign them an order in my installation.
Exhibited: Showroom 0013, HANGAR, Barcelona (ES) in 2000 |
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