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“Das Gewicht der Wörter – el peso de las palabras” -“The weight of the words”

“Das Gewicht der Wörter – el peso de las palabras” -“The weight of the words”

​Part 1: Installation, (2013)

 

This work is based on quite a personal story, but I like to see it as a platform that can be used and related to by anyone. All started with different photographs of “platanos”, South American cooking plantains, which are a symbol of my father’s origin to me (with whom I did not grow up). The platanos became sculptures and characters – intuitively I coupled them with words and sentences of a text I wrote beforehand and embodied them on pieces of wood. I attached sandbags of different weights to them and arranged them on a shelf off which the audience could pick them and feel the different weights of the sentences and words. Growing up without a father is a story I share with many people, nevertheless it is an experience that has shaped me and so it became the subject of this work.

 

Part 2: Video (02:25min), (2013)

 

I asked my father to read the aforementioned text and film himself meanwhile.

 

 

 

Coming soon!

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