IP35 / 2025. The Existence of a Void; Definitive Absence

Public Space, University of Valencia
This project distances itself from the familiarity with which art is often interpreted, proposing a work that offers no clues or concessions, but is articulated around an intangible gesture: the weight of the air that sustains and vibrates the absence. This levitation becomes a metaphor for a void that weighs, for a presence erased but persistent.
The evanescent volume, made from greenhouse plastics based on the technical data of archaeologists, reproduces the void of one of the mass graves at the Paterna cemetery, where more than 2,500 people were executed and buried under inhuman conditions.
The project, still in process, starts with the volumetric reconstruction of the opened graves at the Paterna cemetery. The piece stands as a hybrid symbol of violence and memory, using the slowness of materials to elevate this void and make it fall unnaturally: a strategy to survive the inheritance of the hole, the grave, and make tangible what is not there, what has been erased.