Installation presented in Farrera, as part of the Festival Saó, organized by Centre d'Art i Natura de Farrera, in October 2024.
I used different old sheets and fabrics that I previously collected and dyed with laundry blue (blauet / azulete), a pigment with a very symbolic charge for its domestic use. Traditionally, it was used to whitewash the walls of houses, to make clothes whiter and to paint doors and windows frames to scare away demons. Applied in larger quantities, it dyes the fabrics in an intense and electric blue, which contrasts a lot with the natural colors of the village and the valley.
The different fabrics hanged from the balconies and windows of the houses of the village, plastically modifying their vision, paying tribute to the inhabitants of these high
mountain villages and the hard work they carried out daily,
especially women, such as washing clothes in the icy waters of the river and other washing sites.
I used different old sheets and fabrics that I previously collected and dyed with laundry blue (blauet / azulete), a pigment with a very symbolic charge for its domestic use. Traditionally, it was used to whitewash the walls of houses, to make clothes whiter and to paint doors and windows frames to scare away demons. Applied in larger quantities, it dyes the fabrics in an intense and electric blue, which contrasts a lot with the natural colors of the village and the valley.
The different fabrics hanged from the balconies and windows of the houses of the village, plastically modifying their vision, paying tribute to the inhabitants of these high
mountain villages and the hard work they carried out daily,
especially women, such as washing clothes in the icy waters of the river and other washing sites.
