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STUDY OF EXHAUSTION FIVE |2016 The Ghost archive Sweat prrinted on paper 200 pages of 21.5 x 27 cm. Enrique is an engineer who began to collect nails, nuts and screws in the streets since it was impossible to find any in the embargoed Cuba. He printed with his sweat his 20 years collection . Carlitos is a researcher of the history of make up in Cuba so he decided to print all the faces of the showgirls he helped to make-up


STUDY OF EXHAUSTION FIVE |2016
The ghost archive

PHILIPPIDICS: STUDIES ON EXHAUSTION


This archive was  created to  document and  preserve  “unrewarded work”  as a worker’s life legacy. For its creation, the artist hacked many printers and ink-injection devices so that  they print with sweat, used  as raw material to create  these objects, based on the idea that  sweat is both the DNA  and a metaphor of work.  When sweat  dries it  becomes  invisible, and it can only be seen using ultraviolet light. The  pictures shown have a blue  dye, because they were lightened up  with black light, a variant of UV light.

This project has been developed in many places and contexts. The following images capture the stage of the project made in Havana, Cuba




Antonio Vega Macotela

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Mexico 1980,  Lives and works between Barcelona, Amsterdam and Oslo.

Antonio Vega Macotela among other Fellowships and residencies has been a fellow Resident of The Rijksakademie Van Beldende Kunsten, the National acaddemy of art in Oslo, and more recently the ETH in Zurich.He has exhibited his work in international venues such as the 23th and 34th Sao Paulo Biennial, the 14th Istanbul Biennial, the Second Triennial of the New Museum in NY, Manifesta 9 in Genk Belgium, Prospect 3 in New Orleans, dOCUMENTA 14 in Kassel, the Center Pompidou Metz and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles among others.