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The Same Ground
That Time, Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 2023
Vinyl installation


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Vinyl floor work running throughout the exhibition and public spaces of Tabakalera.
Commissioned along with a selection of works from the collection of the Bilbao
Fine Arts Museum, the installation functions as a temporal floor score, shifting
between language and gesture.

With no fixed orientation or direction, the work extends the exhibition through the
buildings’ walls and corridors, and requires movement to be viewed or read. It breaks
in and out of grids and order, suggesting slippages in the linear, fixed structure
of language and time––which can be understood as temporary grammars for under-
standing the world––leaving as constant, perhaps, only the ground that holds us.

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Curated by Miriam Alzuri & Oier Etxeberria