Image 1,  Hangar.org, Barcelona
Image 2, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm

Over centuries land workers and their families establish their homes in this area to work the land. Today these forms of artisanal production work and life in the area are almost extinct. However there are no other labour alternatives in the province, so either you work the land, are retired, unemployed or work as a builder gaining an average of four euros per hour. The situation of women is intensely critical, the hierarchy established habits are still palpable in professional and domestic spaces.
In Castillle the nature of the land worker was to be nomad. However, many families decided to settle over four or five generations in the province rural areas. 
Young generations do not believe artisanal labour is a dignify occupation. Youth does not perceive artisanal production to be an option worth to dedicate their lives too, as their relatives did. On the other hand, there are a series of state measures that indirectly encourage this abandonment. There is a state compensation for families that have been working the land but which sons are still under their roof and unemployed. 
Castilla-La Mancha is one of the regions with the highest risk of poverty and social exclusion in Spain. This type of state measures are a trap for the majority of families working in rural areas in this province, as they indirectly encourage younger generations to remain unemployed and choose to survive from the state subsidy, even against the will of their families. 
This means, that younger generations, which resemble the future potential of artisanal production and work, are indirectly displaced out of the land. Meanwhile, the land extensions in the province are exposed and vulnerable. 
The audios show a series of preliminary and informal conversations where voices are heard speaking in Manchego, the language of the province. The set of audios houses personal stories, childhood memories, desires, fears, ways of life and work of people from the southwest of the province of Ciudad Real, in Castile-La Mancha.
The deliberate absence of image, aims to liberate the witness from a ‘visual limit’, from being objectified or classified, recognized in any form of aesthetical terms. The absence of ‘definition’ of the identity directs our needs to empathies with the voice, its logic, the interpretation and in several cases translation. 
ANONYMISE
2015
Series of unfinished OKAY shapes made of white polystyrene foam covered by cristal clear resin along with dust and waste. The forms are positioned in a dark room and accompanied by a sound piece, 2015.
PASTIME
2016
Field trip in search of bones Valley of Alcudia, Ciudad Real. Castilla-La Mancha, Spain 2016
Washed
2017
100L. water and sweat, light installation Polivalente space, Hangar.org Barcelona 2017
YOU, CITIZEN
2015
This document is part of a video clip found via a media channel on the internet. The footage shows how cinema screens were built in the streets of the city of Mosul Iraq to encourage Iraqi citizens to gather and watch oppressive propaganda. Film dated in February 2015. Duration 2’38’’ Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Royal College of Art, London 2015
SIGNIFICANT CONTACT
2015
Performance and documentary film 08'37'' Participants: Actor and professional fighter Stuart Booth & Seyit Bozdag Duration of the performance: 02:00:00 {Rehearsal 01:56:00 - Show 00:04:00} Court Room, QHS Wellington (Victoria Embankment, London) 08 - 2015
12/2000
2016
series II folded Tv plasma screens La Casa Encendida, Madrid. ES Funded by Generaciones 20216 Fundación MonteMadrid, ES.
Early works
2008
La imagen proviene del interior de una fábrica
2023
Glass plates engraved placed over a rigid grey foam base. Measures vary from 1.10m x 75 cm / 31cm x 41cm. Series of unique pieces. The number of pieces on display varies depending on the specificity of the space. Espai Rampa, La Capella Barcelona.
Bleed Hole
2017
video installation/digital work variable dimensions photographic documents 1/5 films series 2/50 2017
black adhesive vinyl
2007
Installation. T1 Barajas Airport Madrid, Spain. 2007.
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