Kissing the Pavement • 2008
(Besando el Pavimento)
Printed at Arte Dos Gráfico
Book size 86 inch. X 19 1/2 inch. X 1.18 inch.
Silkscreen on single sheet of paper.
Edition of 75 copies
Available Here
Fernando Botero Award - 2007*
(Besando el Pavimento)
Printed at Arte Dos Gráfico
Book size 86 inch. X 19 1/2 inch. X 1.18 inch.
Silkscreen on single sheet of paper.
Edition of 75 copies
Available Here
Fernando Botero Award - 2007*
Kissing the pavement is a slang term used in Latin America, referring to when a person is stabbed and left on the street to die. As the direct opposite of equality and order, this book addresses the situation in Bogotá, which is characterized by social indifference and escalating violence. Nonetheless, in the mother tongue Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a death threat sounds like this: I am going to leave you kissing the pavement.
The book is 7 (seven) feet long, and I fit in it like a coffin. It is printed on a single sheet of paper in a 5-layered silkscreen. The accordion folds, deconstructs, and fragments the large image of a male on one side, and a female on the other. The golden ground re-contextualizes these bodies, elevating them to quasi-religious iconography; breaking for an instant the ultra-violent death, so that these beings can indulge in a peaceful, golden sleep.
