Crisis

2010
Paper made from by-products of beer production, cotton threads. Hand-embroidered, drilled handwriting.
Variable dimensions

Through a double structure of manipulation, the artist tries to show the duality of experiences with respect to the fulfillment of the articles included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). On one side are the rights, here written using a perforated writing, which makes them difficult to read. Each word is formed by a set of dots “in the void”, a dead and invisible letter, a metaphor for the fact that there is no single state that respects the integrity of this declaration. On the other hand, by means of the second structure that composes the book, it is possible to read easily and to feel tactilely the parameters that are established for the fulfillment of these rights and that are those that the citizens suffer daily.

Photo: Julieta Ansalas