Washing of conditioned patterns of Western behaviour
-January 2024 Participatory Action within "Over the Ruins" Multidisciplinary event. at L'occulta, Barcelona, Spain.
-From 18/03 to 23/07 of 2023. Participatory Action. Part of the anual show "Geting Lost" with “The Orchid & the Wasp” Exhibition at NDSM Fuse. Curated from Maud Onk. Amsterdam The Netherlands.
-January 2020 Participatory Action “Research Week of KKH Royal Institute of Art & Decolonising Architecture Advanced course”
This project of artistic research and participatory action began in the year 2020 in the Research Week with "Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Course" -DAAS- at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and it continues until today with interventions in different sites around the world.
Washing of preconceived thoughts allows us to see the world with different eyes. The public is invited to write down their "subjective patterns of Western behaviour” on pieces of clothes, wash it away with soap and water and hang them on a rope. By washing away the conditioned patterns, this work helps us to recapitulate and see what is true in our lives, decolonizing our way of thinking…
Thousands of recipes were collected in pieces of fabric from people of distant nationalities, genders, and religions.
Este proyecto de investigación artística y acción participativa comenzó en el año 2020 en la Semana de Investigación con el “Curso Avanzado de Arquitectura Descolonizante” -DAAS- en el Royal Institute of Art de Estocolmo, y continúa hasta hoy con intervenciones en diferentes sitios alrededor del mundo.
El lavado de pensamientos preconcebidos nos permite ver el mundo con otros ojos. Se invita al público a escribir sus "patrones subjetivos de comportamiento occidental" en piezas de ropa, lavarlas con agua y jabón y colgarlas de una cuerda. Al eliminar los patrones condicionados, este trabajo nos ayuda a recapitular y ver qué es cierto en nuestras vidas, descolonizando nuestra forma de pensar…
Miles de recetas fueron recopiladas en trozos de tela de personas de nacionalidades, géneros y religiones distantes.
