We were invited by Sabine Reich, co-director of the festival, to curate the zaragozan participation in Das Detroit Projekt. We curated together with Paul Domela (Liverpool) and Marta Keil (Gliwice). THE CITY MUST BE OURS! A massive crisis is hitting Europe. We have to overcome it. We’ve heard both things so many times they don’t […]
See many more pics. We were invited to participate in the exhibition “Learning from Las Cuencas” (Cuencas are the mining areas of Asturias, northern Spain) a research project on the cultural landscape of the Asturian coalfields. Place: Laboral, centro de arte y creación industrial. Gijón, Asturias. Date: 27.09.13-23.02.14 Other participating artists: Óscar de Ávila, Basurama, […]
6,000 km is a documentation project devoted to research into cities’ metabolism, making visible certain hidden landscapes related to production, consume, and waste. Through a series of photographs, data an text, the project seeks to show specific spaces where waste is produced, handled and manipulated. Apart from the obvious ones —such as landfills and scrapyards— […]
More photos of the project Pictures made by the orphanage’s children Contex In the gubernamental orphanage of Kibebe Tsehay, in Sidist Kilo, live children from 0 to 8 years old. There, these children study, sleep, eat, tidy up and play together. The place has a large outdoor space with hardly any trees and wherein at […]
More pictures Context Mafalala is one of the most populars neighborhoods of Maputo, Moçambique. Celebrities as the footbal player Eusebio (a.k.a. the Black Panter), Samora Machel (first president of the independent Moçambique) or the poes Noémia de Sousa and José Craveirinha grew up in this neighborhood. During the foundation of Maputo (eighteenth century) native Mozambicans […]
After its display in Lo Pati Centre in Amposta “Relat de Belles Coses Falses” was re-opened in Arts Santa Monica Barcelona from 15th October 2014 to 25th January 2015. Participants of the exhibition: Verdolatría: Carlos Aires, Josep Berga i Boix, Joaquim Mir, Mariona Moncunill and Rasmus Nilausen. Appalling Regions: Javier Basiana, Jaume Orpinell, Basurama, Julia Montilla, […]
Proyecto de construcción de un parque de juegos en Malabo, Guinea Ecuatorial. Noviembre de 2014.
THIS YEAR IS THE ONE In Spain, some companies give ham to their clients for Christmas. We can only give them the bone. In order to celebrate a most special 2015, we sent some ham bones to a few friends. We’ll get out of the crisis in 2015, and then we will be able […]
¡Eres lo que tiras!
Y la basura que dejas atrás dice más sobre ti de lo que te atreves a admitir. Lo oculto, lo invisible, lo oscuro conforma los estratos más profundos de nuestra memoria.
En junio 2014 fuimos invitados a hacer una instalación en el Museo Victoria & Albert.
Queríamos transformar desechos en “souvenirs”, no sólo los residuos producidos y almacenados por el museo, sino aquellos que los visitantes traen en sus bolsillos.
You are what you throw away!
And the leftovers we leave behind tell more stories about us than any other thing.
They are the strata of our memory.
In June 2014 we were invited to do an installation at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
We wanted to transform trash into souvenirs, not only the trash produced and stored by the museum but also the one that the visitors bring in their pockets.