[ 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…

[ las gaviotas (moeven) ]

my version of sticker-streetart: cutout-photocopies stuck to the wall with transparent tape…

it has the advantage that the bird motives move with the breeze, and that anyone who likes can take them home… and, yes, i admit its quite trashy ;-)

[ 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

[ bbi ]

this installation inspired by the controversy around the extension of the schönefeld airport to “berlin brandenburg international airport” (bbi). the project had been taken to court by the neighbours who claimed that it would have been easy to find a less populated area for the construction site. but there where other problems too: the question whether such a giant project was adecuate for a city as much in debt as berlin and also whether the airport had a chance to be comercially successfull, since it would be mainly used by low cost airlines.

the installation is made with fotocopied and tape-stuck paperelements:

it was located during 3 days in the underground passage of the schönefeld airport trainstation.

a detail view:

a general view of the situation:

at this point i would like to thank the deutsche bahn AG for their help! thanks a lot! amazing how in germany everybody is suportive towards art, cant say the same thing about barcelona (it is actually impossible to get a permission for intervention in the public space for individuals, even when you are an official art student!)

[ 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