This work was made during the pandemic, when COVID restrictions, in one way or another, prevented me from seeing my family for three years. It was in that prolonged stillness that I began to reflect on the concept of movement, not just as a physical act, but as a right, a necessity, and sometimes, a form of violence.
The idea of freedom of movement is as obvious as getting up every day, yet as violent as being forced to leave home due to persecution, armed conflict, or fascist regimes. Sometimes we are forced to move, sometimes it is stillness that is imposed, and with fewer possibilities to decide for ourselves, mobility rights remain relevant and questionable—perhaps today more than ever.
I WISH I COULD GO HOME is on view until the 21st of October at @artespuj , part of the alumni exhibition "Reanudaciones" 🏠🌊
This installation emerges from fear; the fear that seeps into the very spaces meant to shelter us. The tiles appear orderly, calculated, almost playful in their colour, yet in the blink of an eye they reveal themselves as targets, a geometry of threat disguised as design. A body stands at the centre, exposed. Not mine, protected as I am by layers of privilege, but those of all who sought refuge in hospitals and schools, spaces that should have been untouchable.
This work points to the violence that infiltrates the everyday, to the systems that decide whose lives are shielded and whose are left in the line of fire.
Don't tell me how it ends
In-situ installation with masking tape and A3 paper sheets
260 * 530 cm
2026
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El peso elegido, construido, casi convocado. El refugio portátil, el calor a través de la foto, la cuadrícula por la que me meto de forma incómoda y vuelvo a salir, y vuelvo a entrar. El pequeño territorio, el cuerpo que ocupa un espacio, el espacio donde estoy a salvo. La seguridad se puede modelar y se seca al aire libre.
Estoy trabajando en un nuevo proyecto que espero mostrar algún día, en algún lugar, sin afán y con ternura.
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