Cross over area

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sculpture; 2007; textile, wood, polyether; 130x55x35cm

“Cross over area” is a fragment of a quilted/padded fabric wall, from interwoven bricks and shoes. A construction, a stack, a line, border in space, conquering, excluding, delimiting, as though arbitrarily. A wall of pillows and slippers, of steps, sketches of shoes, from fabric, from mattress, soft, on principal rather than by brutality. A stack not fixed, that can be dismantled, where traces of men fit into the construction. A white wall, to be defined, coloured, inhabited, fit in. Human vestiges on the line, making the line, places to be taken, open living spaces.

From the border looking at the world.

Construction, piling up, an idea of a construction.

The cement, the glue in between the bricks : steps, traces of people - not the footprint but the presence while absent - in white, faded, an essence.

A mobile wall fragment, buffer in movement.

The paradoxical idea of protection in the border, the arbitrary of the object’s placement.

About assembling structures/systems  by the means of different cultures, different understandings of the world, by enhancing the value of specific heritages inside the greater construction, about growing an entity open to/for/from mobility.

Integration might be a wrong word.

Toward a combination of frontier runners’ tracks, roads

How does one keep the idea of homeland as its borders fade away? How can one include movement inside the idea of an “empire”? It is about assembling structures/systems by the means of different cultures, it is about giving value to the constituent cultural heritages inside a greater construction, it is about weaving them together rather than integrating one into the other.

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