Untitled, 1979

The Centro de Arte y Comunicación (“Centre for the Arts and Communication”, CAYC in its Spanish acronym) gives all his rooms over to him for an exhibition. He exhibits a large number of pieces produced in recent years, from guts to a kind of model for a ritual monument. The latter consists of an altar surrounded by staircases which contains a hole with bone remains in it. The inscriptions accompanying this work of 1979 –Desire, Love, Knowledge, Fancy– signal the intention of making tangible a reflection about transformation and memory as a way of transcendence.

During this exhibition he receives a letter from a family, some of whose members have disappeared, thanking him for “his indictment, his position”. He discovers that his work can point to the immediate reality, while recognising that the starting point is subjective and personal. When he receives the same letter a second time he also realises that his work could become dangerous.