àngels barcelona

Dislocación / Dislocation, 2011

Drop ceiling of 1,80cm + double sound track, Ed. 3
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This installation contains two elements: an intervention on the exhibition’s architectural space, and a sound track. The first element refers to the construction of a drop ceiling of 1,80cm (the artist’s height ). This ceiling covers almost the entire surface of the room, leaving only a margin of 15cm along the perimeter to allow light from the blocked upper space to filter downwards. The second element is a double sound track that plays, also from the upper space, a recording of the artist’s voice giving different commands, as well as the sound of his hands hitting the ceiling or the walls. By imposing the artist’s physical scale and voice onto the space, along with dislocating its interior—the upper space remains inaccessible—the installation radically alters the way in which we can inhabit this location, negating the regular references of the gaze and thus conditioning our physical movement and the relationship among those present.


View installation. Drop ceiling of 1,80cm (the artist’s height ). This ceiling covers almost the entire surface of the room, leaving only a margin of 15cm along the perimeter to allow light from the blocked upper space to filter downwards + a double sound track that plays, also from the upper space, a recording of the artist’s voice giving different commands, as well as the sound of his hands hitting the ceiling or the walls.