Xavier Ribas
Concrete Geographies: Nomads
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Date 2012
Publisher Bside Books, Barcelona
Technical info
Ed. 687, signed and numbered, 24 x 30 cm. 84 pages
Languages
English, Spanish
Publisher Bside Books, Barcelona
Technical info
Ed. 687, signed and numbered, 24 x 30 cm. 84 pages
Languages
English, Spanish
Concrete Geographies: Nomads
On Feb. 24, 2004, heavy machinery entered an industrial plot in Barcelona occupied by 60 Gypsy families. Over a few days diggers drilled and lifted up the concrete floor of the site, intimidating and pushing the Gypsies out. A contorted surface, like a horizontal wall, was left, to keep the site empty. The broken ground, the cracked fragments of concrete slabs standing up like remnants of ancient Mayan stelae, prove this displacement and the economic value of destruction to control space. Published with the support of the University of Brighton.
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