[ ofelia - a veces (ophelia - sometimes) ]

this is kind of a capture of moments of anxiety and struggle when dealing with my identity as a woman, moments when the definition of “woman” suddenly becomes to narrow or confusing. like ophelia i sometimes feel like drowning when i don´t see the light at the end of the tunnel and i guess it happens to lots of people (women and men) when dealing with concepts of gender between tradition and actuallity…

[ bodyparts ]

so this is about identity and how the physical influences the psycological or social: living in a city changes you, the mere physical disposition of a town has an influence on you. i wanted to make a temporary change in this town by representation of my physical presence.

this project came out of the nuclear cloud one i made in berlin. back in mediterrean barcelona it had to be a more lighthearted approach, though ;-).

the location here was particulary nice…

[ nuclear cloud ]

berlin has this touch of cold war about it. or maybe it was just me, finding out all these little details, that made of the city the symbol of an aera, and specially of its end. i remembered the omnipresent fear of nuclear war in the eighties… that left its mark in so many movies, books, songs etc. to commorate that i made a monument out of paper ;-)

here on its final location next to the oberbaumbrücke in kreuzberg

[ meadas (pissmarks) ]

it is funny how tags have this competitive and “marking my territory” aspect… it allwas made me thing of dogs covering up the smell of each others piss. so this is about that, i made the pissmark stencil and sprayed it around, but it was so discrete that i dicided, it needed a “meada madre” (mother of pissmarks) which i sawed out of a block of box-cardbord, that i glued toghether with white glue.

some fotos of the stencils:

the cardboard sculpture