The proposed work consists of a phrase in black adhesive vinyl cut lettering installed on the glass facade of the MUNTREF external elevator.
The phrase, “tenias que tener casas grandes para alojarlos a todos y tenias que tener bibliotecas para los libros y tenias que tener casas fuertes para cuidar los libros” describes an initial structure. Over the past few years, I’ve been investigating translation within the artistic practice as a way of creating incisions in speeches and utterances. In this sense, I’ve been interested in the logistics operations of cargo transportation, for example, by sea and in ports. I speak of translation as a place of incommunicability that confronts logistics as something that seeks to overcome barriers —linguistic, social, cultural, etc— and translation as the act of dealing with what is left behind in this crossing. Establishing this background, with the phrase, I want to talk about load structures that look like enunciation structures. The elevator tower, the port, and the museum enables a tension between these platforms and its Hinterland, the land behind, what remains of these structures, in this sense, a place of translation.
The phrase measures 13 meters long and shall be arranged along the 24 meters high of the elevator structure. The work can be assembled from the inside of the structure with the adhesive vinyl being glued to the glass so that the reading is done from the outside of the elevator.