[spectre] Interview with Natascha Sadr Haghighian about the '# 04 Natascha Sadr Haghighian. De paso' sound installation

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*Interview with Natascha Sadr Haghighian about the '# 04 Natascha Sadr
Haghighian. De paso' sound installation at the Capella MACBA*

Link: http://bit.ly/nHtw2D

Let us imagine a work that consists in crushing, repeatedly and
mechanically, an object – a plastic water bottle – by another – a piece of
hand luggage. A crush that produces a sound, amplified by eight channels,
which occupies the totality of the central space of the Capella MACBA. Not
far from this curious and strange conflict between things, we find another
two objects, one of them equally curious: a photograph taken by David
Seymour during the siege of Barcelona in 1938, at the height of the Spanish
Civil War, in which we see a citizen stocking up on water. Thanks to the
collectivisation of water in Barcelona by the anarchists, water was then a
common commodity, which ensured survival. Next to it there is a fountain.
Built with IKEA catalogues, piled up and with a straw on top emulating a
jet, this silent fountain alludes to the most basic liquid in life, an
absent liquid: water.

The totality of the 'Natascha Sadr Haghighian. De paso' exhibition at La
Capella MACBA refers to common commodities, to transformation, to cultural
and political life, to consumerism, and to having access to them. But it
achieves something unprecedented: nothing is reduced to an icon, to an
image.

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