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If only I could see what you see (HORIZON) View of the installation in direction towards Syria Public Commission, Aqaba ( Lagoons-district -Ayla), Jordan , 2016. View of Installation, direction towards Egypt. Towards Israel Detail. Direction South Arabia.   If only I could see what you (HORIZON) see has been conceived for a site-specific intervention at the Lagoons-district -Ayla. From a historically point of view, the distance to the visible horizon has been extremely important as it represented the maximum range of communication and vision and therefore it seams to suit our purpose to address the subject both conceptually and literally. Literally we have focused on the term horizon in its sense of skyline or apparent line that separates earth from sky, the line that divides all visible directions into two categories: those that intersect the Earth's surface, and those that do not. On the other hand, the project assumes the philoso...

CONTINGENCIES CONTINGENCIES, Public Commission, Mislata, Spain. November , 2016   CONTINGENCIES is a public commission, designed for the city of Mislata, with the aim to promote critical thinking on the uses of private and / or privatized media and space in the urban landscape. In this sense, based on the English term SOLAR POWER (solar energy) which in its literal translation has been "broken down" into the words SOLAR and POWER, the project tries to reflect two important debates that are part of the current socio-political agendas: energy poverty versus the national controversy of solar energy availability and the abandonment and negligent or intentional degradation of private and public spaces for speculative purposes. For a long time, different social and cultural agents have proposed alternative uses for these sites. There are known examples, such as the Solar Corona in the Ciutat Vella of Valencia, which through collective management an...

Prime Time Monument for the Victim s of the Underground Accident in Valencia on the 3rd of Jul y 2006.  Public commision. Memorial designed in 2015, inaugurated on the 5th of november 2016. #memorial #monument #contemporaryart #kunst #sculpture

Unbroken (Iconoclash) 3rd Bienal Casablanca, Morocco, 2016 “Unbroken” is conceived as a fictional essay film addressing human perception of and interaction with personal and collective memory in relation, or in opposition, to history. A complex and twisted editing of images, together with the sound of rewritten fragments based on George Orwell’s 1984 and José Luis Borges’ Funes the Memorious, draft a narrative of memory, in contradicting ways, caught between hypermnesia and the wish to erase everything -set in a time where the future has already past and the past continues to be present. Video-Essay. Runtime: 00:11:55 Year:  2016 Language: French Master: Digital/ 1080p HD Format: MPEG/MOV Subtitles: No Colour/BW: Colour and BW Multichannel (yes/no): No Sound: Stereo https://vimeo.com/179316957 Password: ask for permission