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Rooms
1997 (2000)
Seen from the street the Bellvitge apartment blocks at the edge of Barcelona reveal themselves
for what they actually are: small homes piled one on another. Some windows sport flowers, many more have clothes hung out to dry, air conditioning units,
satellite dishes, birds in cages... Interiors flaunted at the sun,
they project to the outside world a private space otherwise not visible
from the street. This opaque façade of the suburban housing
block that seems to condemn, hide and associate privacy with obscenity
(Lefebvre) coexists in apparent contradiction with the glass transparency
of corporate buildings, which enclose a space filled with light
and free air (Benjamin). The nakedness of the corporate worker (a stock jobber in front of his computer, for example, sixth floor), which can be
glimpsed from the street in the business center of any city, is a counterpoint to those clothes
hung out to dry, and the birds in cages of the housing blocks in
the peripheries; and to those windows whose bars are obviously not
to protect oneself from outside intrusion, but from what lies inside.
Prints details:
8 C-Type prints size 108x108 cm
(80x80 + 14 cm white border) Edition of 6
Portfolio box of 8 C-Type prints size 50 x 60 cm
Edition of 6
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