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 at the Paris International Exhibition of 1937 could be said to light up hope, as the Pavilion concentrated the best of the Second Republic.

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, the line is at the level of the eyes of the Spaniards who fought against fascism, which at that time had one of the lowest averages in Europe (1).

The blue pigment impregnated on the wall, which can fade with a simple blow, is the colour that delimits an area to be built, that of the militiamen’s overalls or that of an imaginary line separating reality from fiction.

(1) The average height of Spaniards at the time of the Civil War was ten centimeters 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.