No tan lejos / Not so far

2024
Installation. Aluminium hut, telephone, live sound and six laser-cut aluminium plates
Dimensions variable. Plates: 200 × 100 × 4 cm

An aluminium hut in the courtyard of the Convent of Santa Clara in Mérida and, in the cloister around it, six plates engraved with sentences. The hut takes its shape from the shepherds’ shelters of Extremadura. Inside there is a telephone. Pick it up and you hear, live, a stretch of countryside kilometres away, and from outside anyone can dial a number to “get in touch with nature”. The plates carry sentences that begin with “/imagine”, the command used to ask an AI for images, such as “/Imagine the moon shining brighter than the screen”. With irony, the project speaks of the urgency of reimagining more responsible ways of sharing the planet.

Production: Solo exhibition curated by Gonzalo Herrero Delicado. Supported by the Junta de Extremadura. Catalogue: ISBN 978-84-9852-824-4.

Exhibitions:

No tan lejos, Sala Santa Clara, Mérida, 2024
Istanbul Digital Art Festival, Reworld section, Atatürk Cultural Center, Istanbul, 2026

«The work asks us to think of connection as something that is never neutral, that always involves a commitment, a negotiation and an act of care.»
Exhibition text for No tan lejos, curated by Gonzalo Herrero Delicado. Sala Santa Clara, Mérida, 2024. (translated from Spanish)

Exhibitions:

No tan lejos, Sala Santa Clara, Mérida, 2024
Istanbul Digital Art Festival, Reworld section, Atatürk Cultural Center, Istanbul, 2026

«The work asks us to think of connection as something that is never neutral, that always involves a commitment, a negotiation and an act of care.»
Exhibition text for No tan lejos, curated by Gonzalo Herrero Delicado. Sala Santa Clara, Mérida, 2024. (translated from Spanish)