HERE / NOWHERE
Domènec
2006
We are here and nowhere.
And life, despite everything, goes on.
We are left with images and names,
memories and emptiness.
And the presence of desire.
The place of love.
Manuel Guerrero Brullet
This project brings together a public intervention that Domènec carried out between the months of March and September of 2005, in Baltimore, West Cork, Ireland. The folder includes 7 photographs and an audio-visual piece, testimonials from the intervention, and a screen-printed poem by Manel Guerrero Brullet.
Domènec placed two signs with the words HERE and NOWHERE on the decks of two ferries that connected two of the many islands off the southwest coast of Ireland. These ferries are the means of transport used by many workers in the area to commute to work every day. The words HERE and NOWHERE question the idea of place by being installed precisely on two platforms that move. In this context, they act as a poetic record of the history of thousands of people who during the famines, from 1846 to 1848, had to leave the region for America.
The edition contains:
7 photographs by Domènec bleed printed as digital giclée prints, with Ultrachrome pigmented inks on HP Matte Litho-Realistic paper, 270 g, 45 x 60 cm.
1 video of 5'13''. Here/Nowhere, Baltimore, West Cork, Ireland.
1 poem by Manel Guerrero Brullet screen-printed on Canaletto Liso Bianco paper, 250 g.
1 folder.
The edition is made up of:
45 complete folders, signed, and numbered, from 1/45 to 45/45.
7 folders marked PA, signed, and numbered, from PA I/VII to PA VII/VII.
1 BAT folder.
