The Desire Of Being Far - Being Far From Desire 2011

Biblioteca Publica de Lleida Exhibition Space, Catalogna, Spain
Paper/Veil, naturel light, text, stainless steel rods — Ø 300 x 10 cm

The desire to be far away lies in the freedom to dream, to imagine spaces and places that are generated by our desire to create the ‘elsewhere’.

Being far from desire affirms our presence in a place: the ‘here’. Being far relativizes our situation; it makes us aware of our body, of its limits and especially of the potential of desire: that of the other, that of being among a crowd, of strolling on a seaside, of finding oneself overseas, of gliding through the cosmos…

The spiral is a form and a space in continuous movement, continuing its trajectory, working on time and space. Illuminating our existence, it generates a creative power, a becoming of here and elsewhere.