seis metros cúbicos
2019
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digital colour
series of 8 photographs, 104 x 80 cm
assistant: juan bernardo ramírez
This series of photographs was produced for the exhibition Diseño en
acción [Design in action] curated by Martín Huberman and shown at Fundación
PROA (Buenos Aires, Argentina) from March 16 to June 9, 2019.
Seis metros cúbicos is a series of eight photographs that portray the morphological
frankness of the dump truck and investigate the singular universes that are
constituted inside it, throughout different neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The balance between public space, infrastructure and
domesticity is often subordinated to second-order structures, usually
unnoticed, with their own imprecise dynamics. The appearance of a dump truck in
the street is an uncomfortable and equally charming event. An object of
indefinite duration and unknown future, a tenant sometimes despised, though
unavoidable.
The tipper is a space for discarding what happens on
the other side of the construction line. It is raw and pure, it crystallises
wills and excuses itself from order, while it stores the remains of small and
gigantic constructions, recycling and demolitions. It can be many things at
once: a witness to the everyday life of a group of bricklayers, a deposit of
pruned branches, a collection of bags of uncertain content, a receptacle of
earth and sand out of scale, a container of rubble, an inventory of everything
that helps to build but also disappears, of everything that cements
architecture from absence, from what constitutes but does not conform.
Moreover, in the urban vertigo, the tipper represents
an opportunity to get rid of what we don't know where to let go. The yearning
for model domesticity has its dark side in the tipper, the extension for
obsolescence. Each interior offers a small obscene universe of waste, a
collection of vestiges and individualities, of orphan pieces, of constructive
and public idiosyncrasies.
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