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El tiempo Suspendido

2 Spanish Immigrants in Berlin in 1975

 

Project developed within the Hàbitat grant programme (City Council of Castellón, 2023), during an artist residency at Glogauer, Berlin.

This work stems from a research process focused on memory, displaced identity, and the way objects can trigger personal or collective narratives. It began with a photograph found at a Berlin flea market: two figures captured in a mirror by an analogue camera. By fragmenting the image and omitting their faces, the scene becomes ambiguous, silent, and open to interpretation.

The installation revolves around a Spanish vase from 1975 —the year of Franco’s death— also acquired as a souvenir. This object becomes a symbol of transition: between eras, spaces, and realities. It is juxtaposed with geometric structures and industrial materials referencing Central European design from the 1970s, creating a visual and political dialogue between two contexts.

The title evokes a fictional, possible, or real story: that of two Spanish immigrants in Berlin in 1975. Through dissonant formal elements and intersecting cultural references, the piece proposes a fragmented reading of history, where the viewer is invited to fill in the gaps with their own memory. A performative evocation of remembrance, where the symbolic blends with the emotional and the uncertain.

Trabajos sobre tela de píxeles

Instalación pictórica de Carlos Sebastiá durante el Premio Senyera de Valencia

INVESTIGATION PROCESS 

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