Elsewhere
Elsewhere
This work was originated in a legal dispute that involved an estate of my family: a property in the outskirts of Bogotá, in which I grew up, was going through a period of unknown ownership that was to be solved by a judge’s decision. Seeing as my family could lose a place that was so meaningful to me, I decided to visit it more frequently. As I watched the days go by, I realised that the leaves falling from the trees were taking over the whole soil and I saw in them potential material to take home and make something to remember the calm and welfare that this place gave me for so many years.
Hence, the installation titled ‘Elsewhere’ became a mantle suspended from the ceiling, made of the fallen leaves from the three bougainvillea trees in my family’s country house. This tapestry is 17 meters long and 2,40 meters wide. These measures represent not only the work time it took, but also the time that the lawsuit lasted. The mantle was finished when the judge declared that the estate did no longer belong to my family and was to be yielded.
From then on, the installation, the mantle, became a new place to me. It depicts everything I lived in that house, a place in which I learned, grew up and went through so many experiences with my family.
This work was originated in a legal dispute that involved an estate of my family: a property in the outskirts of Bogotá, in which I grew up, was going through a period of unknown ownership that was to be solved by a judge’s decision. Seeing as my family could lose a place that was so meaningful to me, I decided to visit it more frequently. As I watched the days go by, I realised that the leaves falling from the trees were taking over the whole soil and I saw in them potential material to take home and make something to remember the calm and welfare that this place gave me for so many years.
Hence, the installation titled ‘Elsewhere’ became a mantle suspended from the ceiling, made of the fallen leaves from the three bougainvillea trees in my family’s country house. This tapestry is 17 meters long and 2,40 meters wide. These measures represent not only the work time it took, but also the time that the lawsuit lasted. The mantle was finished when the judge declared that the estate did no longer belong to my family and was to be yielded.
From then on, the installation, the mantle, became a new place to me. It depicts everything I lived in that house, a place in which I learned, grew up and went through so many experiences with my family.
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