Materials: Iron, bricks, magnets, and mirrored methacrylate.
Technique: Sculptural installation
Dimensions: 2 x 1 meters wide, and 2.5 meters high
This piece originates from a Memory Activation session carried out among residents of sector 5 of la Cañada Real. A resident shared that a very vivid memory from her childhood was the bathroom her father built at home. She mentioned that the material was a kind of special cardboard, as it seemed like a mix of brick and cardboard, and to this day she didn't understand where that material came from or how her father had built the bathroom. Then, an older neighbor intervened, recalling how a brick company had dumped some defective rolls in a nearby field, and word spread among the neighbors who went to collect them to use as waterproofing in their homes.
It was during this session that the resident learned they were industrial remnants that had been repurposed to build her home and those of many of the early inhabitants of Cañada. This work precisely engages with memory, seeking to recreate that sensation of being in a room made of bricks and working from the spatiality and the body that evokes emotions associated with the collective.
The structure of the piece is constructed from iron, to which four sheets of bricks are attached, two measuring 1m x 1m and the other two 2m x 1m. They were constructed from opened and emptied Tetra Paks, arranged and assembled in such a way within the structure that they create a cabin you can enter. Once inside, there is a mirror serving as a ceiling reflecting the bricks and those inside. A text is part of the work's interior, alluding to the memory that inspired the piece, intertwining the experience of the space and the narrative to refer back to the history that inspires it.