A Dirty White Cube
Un cubo blanco sucio

A man lives in a cardboard box used to pack refrigerators, installed on a side shelf in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. His character is an impure, Platonic, Franciscan, Beuysian, naturalist, Taoist, Zarathustran, constructivist, symbolist and paranoiac-critical reincarnation of Diogenes. He writes his dreams on the walls of the cardboard. He always carries a small and delicate dollhouse bed in his pocket.

One day, while rummaging through the garbage containers, he finds a can of white paint and a brush. With a certain pride, while he finishes the carton of wine, he paints his box until it becomes an architectural appendix of the museum. A flexible tube will end up connecting both architectures, and the cardboard box will discreetly receive hot air.

Un hombre vive en una caja de cartón de embalar neveras instalada en una repisa lateral del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona. Su carácter es una reencarnación impura, platónica, franciscana, beuysiana, naturista, taoísta, zaratrustriana, constructivista, simbolista y paranoico-crítica de Diógenes. Escribe sus sueños en las paredes del cartón. Lleva siempre una pequeña y delicada cama de casa de muñecas en el bolsillo.

Un día se encuentra, removiendo dentro de los contenedores de basura, un bote de pintura blanca y una brocha. Con cierto orgullo, mientras acaba el brick de vino, pinta su caja hasta convertirla en un apéndice arquitectónico del museo. Un tubo flexible acabará conectando ambas arquitecturas, y la caja de cartón recibirá discretamente aire caliente.

Installation with a table with a drawing and a computer showing a film, and a carton box painted on white inside the lift of an art center.

Direction, camera, edition: Dionis Escorsa
With: Daniel Barbé
3 min 41 sec

Shown at: "The Projector Dog" · Halfhouse · Barcelona · 2019