Sarajevo winter 2012

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I leave a distant view of my own body in Sarajevo. It looks cold, broken up, unknown and inert. So I give it motion, as it suggests its desire to be given life. And it is this I hand over to the city and to the public, who accept it in a truly shocked state. I find myself in a magical, mysterious city. Squashed (not covered) by a mantle of a huge snow. The objects, the lights, the animals, the buildings, all of them emerge from that snowwhite oppression, as a metaphor about its war history, and about a city under siege and bombarded during four years in the recent past, though always tormented by war.

´ Thus wild dogs, pigeons and men emerge from the snow, sometimes static, frozen like dummies, like anonymous and inexpressive buildings. But in the interior of the buildings where life, happiness and passion is hiding, the feelings, prayers and thoughts create real pictures. And they are even shining brightly, without the misterious crushing snow. Sarajevo says good bye to me, with an emphemeral LOVE YOU, written with an anonymous finger on a car ´ s windscreen. And although it will disspear immediately, it will chase me my entire life.


Yo dejo en Sarajevo una vision ´ distanciada de mi propio cuerpo, frio, ´ fragmentado, desconocido e inerte, al que le doy animacion ´ para sugerir que desea atrapar vida. Eso es lo que entrego a la ciudad y al publico que lo acepta since´ ramente impactado. Y me encuentro con una ciudad magica, misteriosa, aplas´ tada (no cubierta) por el manto de las nevada. Los objetos, las luces, los animales, los edificios todos surgen del fondo de esa opresion ´ como una metafora ´ nivea, ´ de su historia de guerra, de ciudad sitiada y bombardeada durante cuatro - en el pasado reciente, pero martirizada anos, por las batallas desde siempre. Asi´ emergen de la nieve los perros salvajes, las palomas, los hombres, a veces estaticos como maniquies, edificios anoni´ ´ mos e inexpresivos. sin embargo el interior de los edificios, donde se esconde la vida, la alegria ´ y las pasiones, los sentimientos, los rezos y los pensamientos, dan imagenes reales, ´ vitales, incluso luminosas, sin el misterio oscuro de la nieve aplastante. Sarajevo me despide con ese LOVE YOU efimero, escrito por ´ un dedo anonimo sobre la luna del automovil, ´ ´ que se borrara´ inmediatamente, aunque a mi me perseguira´ de por vida.


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