INTERIOR ACONDICIONADO [installation]
Installation. Variable dimensions
2024
Curatorial text
This installation was activated by a performance that took place during the opening day. Check pictures of the performance here
When we enter the installation Interior acondicionado [climate room] we find a clean, white and neutral space where there is nothing but three air grilles placed at different heights. Although the room is empty, we get a stifling sensation. The temperature of the room is higher than expected, generating a certain degree of discomfort and rejection. By getting closer to the air grilles and walking from one to the other, a hot air flow hits our waist, our hand, our arm.
The hot air comes from the other side of the wall, as well as a constant humming. There we find the “engine room”, a semi-darkness space separated from the previous one by a transparent fridge curtain, where three portable air conditioners maintain a constant temperature of 20 degrees centigrades. To maintain this specific temperature in the “engine room”, the machines’ engines spin incessantly, producing a hot air flow that is transported by transparent hoses outside of the room. The circuit is contradictory: for one room to get cool, the other must heat up.
Interior acondicionado reverses an everyday gesture and directs the climatic comfort to the back side, the one we do not see and no one usually cares about. This way, the invisible but sensitive consequences of air-conditioning in homes, offices and leisure facilities become visible because they physically affect us.
Interior acondicionado is an installation where nothing is seen and nothing remains. It is, above all, an experience that requires the presence to be experienced.
Images: Roberto Ruíz - courtesy of Espai 19
INTERIOR ACONDICIONADO [installation]
Installation. Variable dimensions
2024
Curatorial text
This installation was activated by a performance that took place during the opening day. Check pictures of the performance here
When we enter the installation Interior acondicionado [climate room] we find a clean, white and neutral space where there is nothing but three air grilles placed at different heights. Although the room is empty, we get a stifling sensation. The temperature of the room is higher than expected, generating a certain degree of discomfort and rejection. By getting closer to the air grilles and walking from one to the other, a hot air flow hits our waist, our hand, our arm.
The hot air comes from the other side of the wall, as well as a constant humming. There we find the “engine room”, a semi-darkness space separated from the previous one by a transparent fridge curtain, where three portable air conditioners maintain a constant temperature of 20 degrees centigrades. To maintain this specific temperature in the “engine room”, the machines’ engines spin incessantly, producing a hot air flow that is transported by transparent hoses outside of the room. The circuit is contradictory: for one room to get cool, the other must heat up.
Interior acondicionado reverses an everyday gesture and directs the climatic comfort to the back side, the one we do not see and no one usually cares about. This way, the invisible but sensitive consequences of air-conditioning in homes, offices and leisure facilities become visible because they physically affect us.
Interior acondicionado is an installation where nothing is seen and nothing remains. It is, above all, an experience that requires the presence to be experienced.
Images: Roberto Ruíz - courtesy of Espai 19