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.
Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/natascha_sadr/capsula