DEL OTRO LADO PROJECT HANGAR BARCELONA 2012-2013. THE WALL IN &OUT EXPLORATIONS. STUDIO EXPERIMENTATIONS WITH FOUND MATERIALS. PROJECTIONS WITHOUT PROJECTOR. THE PRESENT : SKETCHBOOK ACTIONS.
DEL OTRO LADO is a site-specific project that started with my first Hangar residency in 2012. Inspired by the industrial palaus and torres that define the amazing landscape of Poblenou, the project captures key moments of my engagement and interaction with the Can Ricart 19th century factory area. Videos, installations, drawings and photographs translated over the years my fascination with this transforming site. Inside & outside, like the graffiti on the Hangar Center’s gate sign suggests, I worked in and out the metal wall that surrounds the Can Ricart ruins.
THE PRESENT. One hour before leaving Hangar in 2013 : “emergency room mode” sketchbook installations impromptus on the run. The Can Ricart factory ghosts reclaim the factory site. The present : time marker, tense and gift to a site that inspired me for many years. The Homesession Barcelona exhibition in 2021 En la sombra del Mastodonte celebrated my long term dialogue with the site.
Special thanks: Tere Badia, Joana Cervia, Nùria Marquès, Sergi Botella, Rocio Campana, Leila Agzaou and the Hangar team.