Permanent installation for Facebook Artist in Residence, 2020

Photography courtesy of @fbariprogram

This melodic saying in Spanish is used when a person has been running around from one location to another. In a place like my home town Bogotá, it also implies the discomfort of rushing between locations in a large chaotic city. For me that idiom encapsulates a sense of frustration with the impossibility of physically being in two places at the same time. As a dual national part of the Colombian diaspora, with family members spread in five continents, this frustration takes on a totally different meaning. I am constantly being reminded of the distance of my kin and the difficulties I have to face to go and visit loved ones. So, I came up with a poetic solution—or a hopeful failure—to fulfill the impossible dream of being here and there at the same time.

ELONGATION AS A METAPHOR OF A BODY TRAVELING BETWEEN SPACE AND TIME.

Installation composed of around 20 ¨bodies¨ connecting different walls and entangling between them in the process. Each ¨body” consists of two hands and two feet connected by tubes in two different configurations and varies in color and dimension.