Exhibited works

Desplazamiento, 2016
Installation
Plasterboard and paint
132 linear m
MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo
With the collaboration of Justo Román

The installation outlines a duplicate of the walls, through a front and side displacement (217 cm and 415 cm respectively) of the floor of the building.

The new walls, with a height of 50 cm, offer us the possibility of rethinking the place by interrupting the usual dynamics of use and perception of the exhibition galleries and the museum’s restaurant. At the same time, the obstacle creates other perspectives and routes, generating unusual circulation patterns.  

65 lápices, 2016
Installation
Wall piece drawn by Sol Álvarez Soto, Rebeca López Villar and Gabriela Lusquiños Santos
MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo

One of the museum’s walls is covered with 65 pencils and therefore creating a large scale abstract drawing which measures the place and time needed in order to perform the action.

Cámaras de vigilancia, 2008-2016
Installation
Surveillance camera cases
Measures variable
MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo

This installation copies and multiplies the already existing safety cameras in the museum. With a central “nest” made up by a great number of replicas, a “plague” is created that extends itself through different spots in the museum by re-signifying and visibilizing a contemporary device as present as much as invisible. This artwork was created for the exhibition The Museum as Medium, 2008.

(Telón.), 2015
4 curtains 9,60 x 5 m/each
Theatre action and video (8’54’’)
El Público, Centro Federico García Lorca. Granada, 2015

A theatre without actors in which the curtains fill the scene. The curtain has ceased to be a tool for transitions between acts, and has become a part of the scene itself. A theatre production which is hinged upon the raising and lowering of the curtains, creating endless colour combinations. Diversity of rhythm and movement which allows for random encounters between the different curtains and colours.

Moving Stones, 2015
51 photographs (15 x 20 cm/each)

Columna, 2015
Installation
77 stones, rod and printed paper
314 x 18 x 18 cm

Disappearing, 2015
Video
48’’
Cappadox, 2015. Cappadocia Struck

The artist took a series of walks through Cappadocia, selecting, transporting and relocating stones along the way. Through the act of walking, the artist made minute gestures which transformed the landscape. These movements are shown through documentation, both photographic and cartographic (coordinates), indicating the points where the stones were picked up and put down.

Local stones are used to adapt the column to the height of each exhibition space.

Piscine Saint-Georges, 2014
4 channel video installation
4’34’’
14 June 2014. Play Time. Les Ateliers de Rennes
4ª biennale d'art contemporain. France, 2014

The Saint-Georges swimming pool was built in 1926. Around the same time, the city built other facilities in order to meet the leisure and entertainment needs of the population. In this context, 86 swimmers responded to a public call from the artist to swim in the pool. The work, which includes both the performance of the event and its documentation, is shown as an installation.

The impossibility of maintaining a circle of swimmers, the overcrowding caused by swimming in line in a full swimming pool, the organisation of the participants and the need to adapt to the pace of other swimmers are all elements that play with a contradiction that develops when rules and structure are set against the recreational purpose of the event.

Making Ways, 2013
Installation
Videos and vinyl on the wall
Measures variable
13th Istanbul Biennial, 2013

Making Ways, 2013
Video installation
Double screen
23’44”

Making Ways, 2’15” in Karaköy, 2013
Video
2’15”

The urban layout of Karaköy in the city of Istanbul does not match the use people make of it. Thus, ways of crossing the street became the subject of analysis and documentation. The movements and routes of pedestrians were recorded, observed and classified, with the aim of creating typologies based on the behaviour and movements of the pedestrians, who create routes beyond those established by law.

The installation includes an instruction manual which presents the behaviour of pedestrians as an alternative to the 'official' routes; the pedestrians' routes often seem to have a will of their own.

Polder Cup, 2010
4 Sept 2010. Ottoland. Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and Skor / Foundation Art and Public Space. The Netherlands
Paint, vinyl and photograph on the wall
Measures variable

Polder Cup, 2011
Video
10’38”

Polder Cup_Post, 2011
Video
4’05”

Teams Photo, 2011
15 photographs
24 x 36 cm/each

By means of an open call, promoted by the Witte de With Centre, which installed a banner on its façade as an invitation, a football championship was organised in the polders, areas of land reclaimed from the sea. The football pitches incorporated the geographical features of the area, such as water channels, which required the players to create new strategies and rules appropriate to the new situation. In this context, the dynamics of the game replicated social situations in which allies and adversaries are determined based on specific scenarios.

Another Via, 2009
Postcard
10 x 15 cm
Al-Ma’mal Foundation, Jerusalem

A postcard that sends the reader on a route through Jerusalem, in which the journeys are conditioned by random interaction with other individuals and urban elements. The project was designed for the specific context of this city but can be applied to any other place.

You can start the walk in the city from any point and at any time. Walk straight until you come across any of the items listed below. When you do so, turn left. If a street fork or you reach a dead end, turn right.

-Someone dressed in red
-Someone smoking
-Something yellow
-Someone speaking on the phone
-A green awning
-Follow someone wearing glasses until he/she arrives somewhere

Line of Sight, 2008
Intervention in public space
Installation
DM, paint and screening
Measures variable
29 Aug 2008. Intrude 366. Zendai Museum. Shanghai

Installation of a series of mobile structures in a square in Shanghai in order to conceal the advertising signs from a specific perspective. By choreographing the people responsible for moving the orange panels, the artist aimed to hide the advertising and set the use of urban space against its public ownership.

Crossing, 2007
Photography series
66 photographs
20x30 cm/each
Hangar-CBK-Duende Studios Grand, Rotterdam, 2006

The action, carried out during a residency at Duende Studios in Rotterdam, consisted of documenting the moment at which the clothing of a person walking through the city matched the colour of a building or urban element. To do this, the artist waited in different spots for these chance encounters to occur.

Once the snapshots had been taken, they were set out in a line, generating a route through various urban scenes that shows the moment in which people are disguised by their surroundings.

366 Sillas, 2007
22 Sept 2007. White Night. Madrid
Video
10’14”

366 chairs were arranged in the Plaza de la Villa and the Plaza de las Descalzas in Madrid. Set in contrast to the rigidity of urban furniture, which determines how we move and interact in an urban space, these chairs made it possible to inhabit the city based on the specific needs of each moment, creating new dynamics and demonstrating that the way a city is used creates public space.

The project resulted in a video and a series of photographs that show the different configurations that these spaces acquired depending on how people used them and on the situations that arose in the squares.

Ataskoa, 2005
Photographs
(2) 87 x 131 cm, (1) 87 x 114 cm, (1) 50 x 33 cm
18 Sept 2005. Intza, Navarra

Ataskoa took place in 2005 in Intza, Navarre. An open call was made to create a traffic jam on the mountain. An everyday situation was decontextualised, generating new possibilities by bringing together opposing points of view and creating a new interpretation of the use of automobiles and our relationship with nature.

Parkings, 2005
Photography series
9 photographs
67 x 100 cm/each
Proyecto Coches. Museo Artium. Vitoria-Gasteiz

A series of photographs of unofficial car parks as they empty out, leaving cars out of context. When the car park is full, inventive individuals create new spaces where there were none, making new parking spots. When the vehicles that arrived first and conditioned the position of those following have left, they leave cars in places and positions that make no sense; they follow a logic that we can no longer understand.

Playa, 2005
Photograph
(2) 87 x 131 cm
18 Aug 2005. Playa Zumaia, Guipúzcoa

A Sunday in August, all those arriving to Itzurun beach in Zumaia were given a red towel to use that day. With this action, the apparent summer normality of the beach is interrupted, by introducing an even and homogenising element which modifies both our interpretation of this everyday practice and the perception of the landscape.

Exhibited works / Process tables

Part of the works in the exhibition are displayed in the galleries on process tables, in the form of documents resulting from each project:

Iturriak/Fuentes, 2016
Installation in public space
24 Jan 2016 – Dec 2016. Jardines de Ondarreta
DSS2016 Cultural Capital

The project consists of installing in the same square 13 fountains that have been removed from different places in the city over the last 25 years. This ensemble and compilation tugs at people's memories and seeks to turn the square into a 'Square' with a capital S, through history, memories and the reuse of urban furniture that has fallen into disuse.

Mountain, 2013
Building of a mountain
2600 m³  of dirt and grass
Lower Austria Art in Public Space. Grafenegg. Austria, 2013

This project grew out of an invitation to the artist to carry out a project in Grafenegg Park, where a lake was being built.

The artist created a mountain with the earth removed for building the lake. There are terraces and benches on it, which create new viewing points and different ways of experiencing and perceiving the landscape.

How do You Live this Place?, 2010
4 December 2010. Deveron Arts. Huntly, Scotland

Creation of a collective and subjective map of the city through people's experience of their surroundings. Based on their personal experience of public space, participants placed five stones in different parts of the city following a colour code.

These colour codes were documented through snapshots of the places in which the stones were placed and a map which was generated collectively, with participants plotting the local landmarks where they had placed the different coloured stones.

Football Field, 2007
Intervention in public space
Paint and goals
34 x 18 m 
Colour digital photograph
125 x 70,30 cm
Provisions for the Future. Sharjah Biennial 9, United Arab Emirates, 2009

In the museum square in Sharjah, the lines of a football field are drawn, incorporating the existing items of urban furniture, which interfere with the game. In this way, an urban space is redefined, linking it with a recreational activity, which promotes the coexistence of different uses of public space.