Fallen

2024-

Fragments of a 12 m² AC100 Jesmonite floor, containing calcium chloride (salt), quadaxial stitched glassdust sheet, unrestricted interaction, absorbed traces of the works rising on it and the things involved with them, room conditions, and environmental variables.

During the deinstallation of my MFA Degree Show, I had to break the floor to deinstall the trace collector piece, and I demolished it without a precise plan. I kept the pieces that were the strongest storytellers of the installation and the whole process of installing, exhibiting, and deinstalling. Since all traces contain calcium chloride, still humid, these fragments contaminate the exhibition's residues onto hands*, walls, and any surfaces. Ready to chemically transform each second, sensitive to room conditions, they continue to rust, dry, sweat, and carry the degree show beyond its end.

*Like Merleau-Ponty's honey: "it reverses the roles, by grasping the hands of whoever would take hold of it."