Marc Larré
Origen - destino
2018
Clay
21 x 21 x 24 cm
Origen - destino is part of a series of pieces made with
fresh clay centered around Barcelona’s material heritage,
in that place where it touches something else: unrecorded
local history, that which is no longer heritage: experience,
bodies. Each piece seeks to contrast, on the one hand, the
symbolic charge captured in emblems, monuments, stones,
the city; and, on the other, the use that these emblems,
streets, monuments, and stones are put to in reality. That
is, to contrast the abstraction of symbolic value, its surplus
value, with the much more concrete and indexical use value.
In the end, what remains is the imprint, the trace, the mark
left by one body when it rubs against another, that is, what
happens when the three categories of traditional semiotics
(index, icon, symbol) intersect on a single visual surface.