Wellington 26

Wellington 26 represents a transdisciplinary and experimental approach to exhibition practice as an expression of the body and movement. The project has resulted in an exhibition at the Auditori hall of UPF in Barcelona.

The 5 videos, documenting actions carried out inside an abandoned residential building, are projected within the niches of the exhibition space. Natural light, directed from above through a circular window at the center of the hall, illuminates the objects salvaged from the oblivion of an emptied building destined for demolition. 

THE REVERENCE TABLE: RITUAL FOR A VANISHING BODY

This intervention is a final gesture of reverence toward what is about to vanish. In a building condemned to demolition, we extract some of its internal elements as fragments of a dismembered body. What was once hidden is now exposed and placed at the center of the table, prepared for its final act of passage. This table is both a sacrificial altar and an exhibition plinth. Filmed in a single, fixed frame, the sequence evokes a rite of passage.

As part of the intervention, a couple of shorter videos— Taking out and Cleaning— explain how each object was an integral part of the building and has been removed from the big body. Then cleaned up, made beautiful with the same gestures of care reserved for the preparation of an altar or the restoration of an artwork.