Between January 8 and 30, 2015, Marilá Dardot made a video per day, starting from striking headlines from Mexican newspapers.
In the video’s static framework, the artist appears writing those headlines with water on a large concrete wall that, heated by the sun, made the messages disappear instantly by evaporating the water used as ink. Dardot seems to make a comment about the ephemerality of the impact caused by the news. When viewed with the 7 simultaneous channels, “Diário” (journal) shows the Herculean attempt to try to give attention to the severity of the information shared on the wall.
Work created during residence in the Wabi House, in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Between January 8 and 30, 2015, Marilá Dardot made a video per day, starting from striking headlines from Mexican newspapers.
In the video’s static framework, the artist appears writing those headlines with water on a large concrete wall that, heated by the sun, made the messages disappear instantly by evaporating the water used as ink. Dardot seems to make a comment about the ephemerality of the impact caused by the news. When viewed with the 7 simultaneous channels, “Diário” (journal) shows the Herculean attempt to try to give attention to the severity of the information shared on the wall.
Work created during residence in the Wabi House, in Oaxaca, Mexico.
