Materials: Wood, stones, single-channel video.
Technique: Installation and video.
The work is inspired by an event that occurred in 2007. La Cañada Real became the scene of a protest that highlighted the precariousness and social exclusion faced by its inhabitants. The demonstration arose as a response to the forced eviction of a house in Sector 5, with nearly 100 neighbors gathering to defend the home that was about to be evicted, leading to a confrontation with the security forces. During the protest, the neighbors resorted to stones to protect the house, created barricades out of wooden boxes, and women from nearby rooftops assisted; this event was widely covered in the press and became known as the intifada of Cañada Real.
The work is structured around three elements: a main installation, a video, and a series of posters.
The central installation consists of stones collected from the same Cañada Real, on which the neighbors have inscribed messages of protest and denunciation. These messages, mostly originating from memory activation workshops carried out with the Asociación Tabadol, are inspired by the messages sometimes written on bombs, in our case, turning the stones into a channel of indignation, making it material and visible. These stones with messages are arranged in a gradient-like device, progressively increasing in intensity as the structure narrows.
The video and posters accompany the main installation. The video shows images that evoke the tension and events of the intifada experienced in Cañada, and the posters highlight messages and elements of collective memory, creating a dialogue with the stones and contextualizing the community's experience.