(Selected artwork for XXV Edición de Circuitos de Artes Plásticas de la Comunidad de Madrid, Spain)

The concept of Illumination is not only interpreted from a physical point of view, as the deliberate use of light with the
use of a device to illuminate a space. Illumination is also related to an intellectual arena linked to knowledge,
whereby we rationally understand through our experience.

Living-Room Lamp joins both perspectives with the use of a present artifact in a quotidian space, where daily life is lived.
The surface that is above our heads, is full of images and information that come from one of the daily-use media
to achieve knowledge of our environment and our society: the newspaper.

In these projections, we can see a series of relentless, continued, and persistent information, around which oscillate
common ideas that were installed in the Spanish society collective imagination between 1997 and 2008.

The work is an installation consisted of a domestic lamp series and integrated within a quotidian space: the living room.
Every lamp corresponds to a bubble housing period, from 1997 to 2008. From each of them, a video is projected
on the ceiling, comprising newspaper images that belong to the Spanish National Library.
These series of images above our heads invade the space and floods it with information that comes from official
sources, supposedly with credibility, as the newspapers are.

Living-room Lamp // Videoproyección, lámpara // 135x49cm
Living Room Lamp // Videoprojection, lamp // 180x50cm

 

Detail: Living Room Lamp // Video projection, lamp, video
Video frames // El País, Spanish newspaper // Dates: Friday, July 2nd 2004 / Friday, Februaty 4th 2005 / Friday, July 21st 2006 // Section: Properties // Actual newspaper scanned. National Library, Madrid.

 

Vídeo frames Periódico El País Fechas: Viernes, 2 de Julio del 2004,Viernes, 4 de Febrero del 2005 y Viernes, 21 de Julio del 2006 Sección: Propiedades Escaner periódico original. Biblioteca Nacional.
Video frames // El País, Spanish newspaper // Dates: Friday, July 2nd 2004 / Friday, Februaty 4th 2005 / Friday, July 21st 2006 // Section: Properties // Actual newspaper scanned. National Library, Madrid.