Sin titulo (brick)
2900,00
€
The work emerges as side B of an artistic research carried out as part of the Ctibor Artistic Residency, entitled 'An imprecise memory, of a fact or an image, comes to my memory'. This piece worked with the cultural heritage of the old Ctibor brick factory in Argentina, linked to the idea of memory present in the materials, in their wear and tear and their traces.
The work proposes a kind of torture machine that slowly but continuously marks a small ceramic brick against a kind of steel claw. The idea of the trace as a way of accessing the past appears in the words of Hito Steyerl:
“The wounds of things are deciphered and then subject to interpretation (...) The field of forensics can be understood as the torture of objects, which are expected to tell us everything, just like human beings when they are interrogated. Often, things have to be destroyed, dissolved in acid, cut up or dismantled in order to make them tell their whole story. To affirm the thing also means to make it collide with history”.
The trace makes visible the device's own repetitive action, it gives it away. The longer it acts, the deeper the wear and tear. The signs of the trace leave the marks of its memory and the violence to which it was subjected. The cadence and temporality of the device mark a rhythm of its own that becomes hypnotic, the slight movement of the brick, the sound of the brick, the sound of the brick, the sound of the brick, the sound of the brick, the sound of the brick, the sound of the brick.
The work proposes a kind of torture machine that slowly but continuously marks a small ceramic brick against a kind of steel claw. The idea of the trace as a way of accessing the past appears in the words of Hito Steyerl:
“The wounds of things are deciphered and then subject to interpretation (...) The field of forensics can be understood as the torture of objects, which are expected to tell us everything, just like human beings when they are interrogated. Often, things have to be destroyed, dissolved in acid, cut up or dismantled in order to make them tell their whole story. To affirm the thing also means to make it collide with history”.
The trace makes visible the device's own repetitive action, it gives it away. The longer it acts, the deeper the wear and tear. The signs of the trace leave the marks of its memory and the violence to which it was subjected. The cadence and temporality of the device mark a rhythm of its own that becomes hypnotic, the slight movement of the brick, the sound of the brick, the sound of the brick, the sound of the brick, the sound of the brick, the sound of the brick, the sound of the brick.
lwh: 300x210x200 mm
Weight: 2500 g
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