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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