Marcos Ávila-Forero France / Colombia, 1983
Estibas. From Riochiquito II, 2018
Installation, standard 120 x 80 cm. EPAL transport pallets, sawdust from sawn pallet.
240 x 240 x 12 cm.
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The series Estibas displays several pallets —structures originally conceived for the transport of merchandises— with poetic images carved into their surface. These pallets —halfway between the artisanal object and the...
The series Estibas displays several pallets —structures originally conceived for the transport of merchandises— with poetic images carved into their surface. These pallets —halfway between the artisanal object and the industrial object— do not exist anymore as a structure to transport goods, but as the substrate of historical narrative. The engraved representations illustrate the Colombian rural context, inspired by photographs and archival material that relate both to peasant economies, and to historical moments of the armed conflict that has transformed said peasants into guerrilla-fighters. The object is transformed into a giant stencil. In front of each pallet, the sawdust produced while carving it reproduces its own image, as many times as the available sawdust allows. These stylized representations lay out the account of a unique story, which repeats itself in a mechanical fashion, diluting little by little the image and its original reference, as to suggest an alternative account of their historical roots.
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