installation formed by cement sculptures with mineral inlays, iron table and DM of 80 x 70 x 300 cm, 10 photographic prints on canvas and replicas of sculptural busts in aluminum blackfoil.

Variable measures

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The conceptual origin of this project is found in John Berger’s book and in the semantic discrepancies found in the translations of the title: El tamaño de una bolsa, in Spanish, and The Shape of a Pocket, in the original version. From this difference in meaning and following the intuition developed by the writer, I interpret “bags” as spaces of individual and collective resistance to the contemporary economic system.

The Size of a Bag, the centerpiece of the exhibition, echoes Berger’s different reflections on anonymity -present in the photographs where the bags cancel out faces- and its subversive potential, especially through references to the Zapatista movement. This perspective contrasts with the individualism of current visual culture and opens up new critical positions.

The project is based on cement volumes generated by filling plastic bags – a procedure that links to other previous projects such as, for example, “Blister Suite” – which preserve their original morphology, but at the same time lose their functionality to transform into fossilized forms, a concept reinforced with the incorporation of mineralogical incrustations. Arranged on a table to facilitate observation, and forming groups that highlight the concept of community, the “bags” invite reflection on the processes of homogenization of global capitalism.

The series is completed with the alabaster piece Mask, an ironic game, where the bag is now transformed into a hood that grants anonymity and links to a selection of portraits from the “Monumentalismes” series, which can also be seen displayed in the pre-existing display cases in the space, and which serve as a counterpoint as replicas from monumental sculptures of notable figures in culture.