Subway

The routine is undercurrent… Not fully conscious movements… Obedient, mechanized, alienated, discontent figures. And then, an accidental, haphazard, short meeting and a smile. An ephemeral community, mechanical and functional. The waiting becomes unbearable… The lingering offers an opportunity to dream…

The initial idea for this project was to create a book inside a book. Subway is a book of contradictory sequences that unfold in space. One of them is introduced in the big pages of black and white screen prints, which are base on photos of subway stations, showing the routine, the waiting, the ephemerality and boredom of the subway community, while the other sequence is hidden in the back pages of the smaller book inside, which unfolds in the opposite direction, with digital colour prints of the movement of the train or the movement of the station seen through the eyes of someone in a hurry. The temporal and spatial extension of the work contributes to the experience of reading it. Accordion book-inside book with water-based screen prints on black Arches paper and pigment inkjet prints, supported by a wooden base. Everything encased in clothbound box. Box size: 40x40x5.6 cm, book size: 38x38x2.4 cm - Edition of 6.