The sacks and their arrangement coupled with one another could refer to a simile of the trenches placed during the Civil War, it has multiple interpretations. Finally, after the end of the festival, the proposal was subjected to collapse as part of the same intervention.
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An ephemeral intervention in the Plaça dels Dolors de Tortosa for A Cel Obert.
A Cel Obert is a festival of ephemeral interventions in emblematic spaces of the city of Tortosa. For the seventh edition, due to Covid19, the proposal of the team led by Cristina Bestratén was an edition in transition, a moment to reflect on the pause through an installation and a retrospective exhibition.
The location chosen by the festival is the old Iglesia dels Dolors, in the old town of Tortosa. Demolished during the Spanish Civil War, it is now a unique square where the remains of its monumental arcades, the six side chapels, and the ruins of the main portal coexist.
Crash focuses on that ruin. An exercise in material irony that seeks to freeze a precise moment: the fall of a wall.
We understand collapse as the moment that marks a before and after in matter. The efforts, invaluable to the eye, give up rest to show their natural tendency to rush to the ground. Through a play of forces, the installation appears as an unstable equilibrium that freezes that moment. An inclined plane where the heavy becomes light and the transitory becomes stable. A moment of suspension in time that allows us to appreciate the poetics of balance.
For this, one hundred and twenty airbags are used, usually marketed for fixing merchandise in transport containers. The execution is based on an overlap of ten rows sewn in the workshop, forming an irregular rig. The design dismisses the traditional way of building masonry walls by adding pieces, to propose a propellant force, inflated from below, until reaching seven meters in height.
On the last day, the installation was forced to collapse in a public act that marks the end of the festival. The accumulated tensions are released in a festive action that breaks with the image of the frozen wall. Desplome is a counter-monument that questions a ruin that is in apparent pause.
Desplome is a Pneumatic Hammer installation that, on this occasion, was carried out by Roman Sost, Mon Cano, Jerome Lorente and Iñigo Barrón together with Javier Gutierrez and Ines Miño and also with Cesar Fuentes, Ana Moure, Javier Bilbao, Jorge Aguirrezabal , Mikel Quintana, Jesús Escudero, Blanca Arcos, Matteo Caro and Alvaro Regatero.
