Grid / Grid
Title: Grid / Grid
Year: 2008
Measures: 154 x 500 cm
Technique: Rub ground, graphite on paper
On the floor are the doors to the basement. The cities have veins underground whose contacts with the surface burst discreetly under our walk. The channeling of resources generates an optimization of the same: a sophisticated distribution networks linking the sources supplying the consumers efficiently and fast, so fast that as users we lose awareness of the scale of the network, each time we pull the chain of the toilet, every time that we let it run the water faucet, every time that we are thirsty. Through the soil, the artist touches, rubs and prints genealogies and political systems-territorial branches and structural equipment, reiterations, accidents, interjections, autographs, stories. To produce impressions per rubbed, the original is treated as a future archaeological material. Using a technique employed to investigate the past and implying the potential disappearance of the original in the future, the soil of New York would be part of the first thing that would be below sea level when the poles melt.
