The Manifest of Remembrance, 2021
In 2021, I lived in Blanca, a small village in southern Spain. I had done a residency here in 2019, focusing on everyday objects that I encountered there. I followed them and recorded their developments with a point-and-shoot camera. In 2021, I returned to translate the work I had made there into a new medium. My plan was to create a work in the landscape, but due to bad weather, I changed the direction of the project. This led to this project in which I moulded objects characteristic of the customs of the place in plaster. I was interested in both the local application of these objects and their material properties. The translation from photography to sculpture gave me the opportunity to study these objects closely and attach new narratives to them by translating them into a different material. I created a site-specific installation, orchestrating the sculptures within a rectangle (2x3m) made of locally collected sand clay, as if it were an archaeological excavation.
In 2021, I lived in Blanca, a small village in southern Spain. I had done a residency here in 2019, focusing on everyday objects that I encountered there. I followed them and recorded their developments with a point-and-shoot camera. In 2021, I returned to translate the work I had made there into a new medium. My plan was to create a work in the landscape, but due to bad weather, I changed the direction of the project. This led to this project in which I moulded objects characteristic of the customs of the place in plaster. I was interested in both the local application of these objects and their material properties. The translation from photography to sculpture gave me the opportunity to study these objects closely and attach new narratives to them by translating them into a different material. I created a site-specific installation, orchestrating the sculptures within a rectangle (2x3m) made of locally collected sand clay, as if it were an archaeological excavation.
