Dionis Escorsa
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Double Disappearance
A few years ago, in Berlin, I had to rent out a room. Someone called and reserved it. Inmediately after he parked a lorry nearby and filled up his entire room. That night he slept amid his boxes, and on the following morning he disappeared for good. I never saw him again. A few months later I had to open his boxes, looking for a clue. I filmed the contents. From his childhood toys, his clothes, his toilet bag, or his books, to his family albums, his porn magazines, his schoolbooks. I learned his name. I saw hundreds of photos of him. I got to know his girlfriends. I knew how his face looked as a child, where he had worked, his hobbies. I called several numbers I found on some old notebooks but I gave up after a few days. Because of him I had ran into debt and had to come back to Barcelona. His things remained in the flat. During the trip back, at a gas station, my van was broken into and my video camera stolen. Inside the bags were the tapes containing the shots of the contents of the boxes of the disappeared man. That was his second disappearance, most surely his final one. I recently found these photographs on an old mobile phone.
Hace unos años, en Berlin, tuve que realquilar una habitación. Llamó un interesado y la reservó. Ese mismo día trajo un camión y llenó su habitación de cosas. Durmió allí esa noche y al día siguiente desapareció. Nunca lo volvi a ver. Al cabo de unos meses tuve que abrir sus cajas en busca de alguna pista. Filmé el contenido. Desde sus juguetes de niño, toda su ropa, su neceser o sus libros hasta sus álbumes de familia, sus revistas porno o los cuadernos de la escuela. Supe como se llamaba. Vi centenares de fotos suyas. Conocí a sus novias. Supe que cara tenía de niño, en dónde había trabajado o cuales eran sus aficiones. Pero no me sirvió de nada. Llamé en vano a varios números de una agenda demasiado vieja. Endeudado por su culpa, tuve que volver a Barcelona. Sus cosas se quedaron en el piso. Durante el regreso me abrieron mi furgoneta en una gasolinera y me robaron la cámara de video. En la bolsa estaban también las cintas con las tomas del contenido de las cajas del hombre desaparecido. Esa fue su segunda desaparición, seguramente la definitiva. Descubrí recientemente estas pocas fotos en un viejo teléfono móvil.
2004 · Installation · 5 Photographies, 1 of them retouched, 1 text.
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