Precipitacion de arenas

PRECIPITATION OF SANDS FROM THE CAUCA RIVER (2008)

In 2008, the National Visual Arts Salon was held in the city of Cali. One of the venues was the Colegio La Sagrada Familia, a traditional school run by nuns, located in a residential area of the city. It was out of use, awaiting proposals from interested buyers.

The intervention was carried out in the school's waiting room, by making a perforation in the ceiling slab of this space to form a half-inch hole. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, a stream of sand extracted from the Cauca River was dropped through this hole. More than 7 tons of sand fell, progressively accumulating in the sparsely furnished waiting room with some of its original elements. The public viewed the installation from the door, sealed with glass.

PRECIPITATIONS 2020

The installation was carried out at the Galeria Espacio Continuo. A perforation was made in the ceiling slab of this space to form a half-inch hole. More than 4 tons of sand fell during the 5 weeks of the exhibition, progressively accumulating on a set of furniture stacked in a tower, a moving: the furniture from my house wrapped in packing paper. The public viewed the installation from the door, sealed with glass.

As in the case of the Cali installation in 2008, I wanted a line of time to cross the space. In some way, the installation facilitates this perception of the passage of time. This stream of river sand falls and little by little covers the objects in the scene. As it falls, a cloud of fine dust rises that gradually adheres to the surfaces; everything loses its shine and sharpness, as does the very glass through which we viewed the scene, in a manner similar to that diffuse quality that progressively takes over what recedes from us in time.