Testigo
My intention with this work was to talk about how time passes through an object, accompanying space and people. The stories that an object can tell us ... and how we can bring back to the present things that have been lost over time. Retrieve the texture of those things, recover the memory. Connect moments. The desk is an object that has gone through different stages, four generations, two countries, five cities and a village, six houses, a war etc. That desk is the thread of connection between these different layers.
This is a piece charged with much history and emotions and that’s why i tried to treat it with respect. What I do is to uncover. To make it visible. Expose is using the media that I have here in Barcelona, with only a photo of it, made from my mother in the corner where it is situated in the moment.
Also, next to the photo, I add a small book (DIN A5) which is is registered with the history and data found in the desk of my family.
It is an attempt that i made during the year 2013 and 2014 and after the search for the origins of his family. This is a text found in the table, which was started by my grandfather’s father and then continued writing my grandfather and my mother and later follow the firstborn sons in every generation, as commanded the first owner of the table. A detailed trip to the past ...
There are captured the photographs of the text and the points where the person writing changes.
The selection of that desk was done after a big analisis of a lot of objects that have been conserved until today by several members of my family.