Horizon line, 2019

Metal, fluorescent tubes, pigment
Dimensions lamps q.c.: 24 x 70 x 58 cm

The lamps designed to illuminate the propaganda panels, works of art and handicrafts exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion in Paris in 1937 could be said to illuminate hope, as the Pavilion concentrated the best of the Second Republic politically, socially and culturally.

 The work Horizon line replicates two of those lamps with the aim of illuminating a blue line drawn on the wall with a dust line. Placed one and a half metres above the floor, it symbolises the height of the axis of the eyes of the men and women who fought against fascism during the Spanish Civil War, whose average height was one of the lowest in Europe (1).

 The blue pigment impregnated on the wall, which can fade with a simple blow, is the colour that delimits the area of a project to be built, that of the anti-fascist overalls worn by the militiamen and women militiamen during the war and also that of a possible imaginary line that blurs reality from fiction.

(1) The average height of Spaniards at the time of the Civil War was ten centimetres lower than that of European countries.

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Exhibition:
Theoretics of bread
Rosa Santos Gallery. Valencia. From 20 September to 22 November 2019.