Galería FORMATO COMODO

EXHIBITION: "EAT SHIT" (COME MIERDA) by PAULA RUBIO INFANTE. Opening Tuesday 25 of January at 8PM.

The exhibition is based on a photographic diptych. One of the photographs shows the kitchen of the old prison in Zamora, where the big extractor hood and the hobs are located. The second photograph shows the current state of the mass grave in the cemetery of Toro, Zamora. The artist places four reproductions of the extractor hood inverted in terms of its photographic image, which prevents its real function from being carried out and creating a metaphorical "closed loop" of "bad fumes." These hoods are displayed filled with earth, creating a type of container that resembles other elements such as funnels or niches.

The diptych is completed by a series of drawings and models of possible future alterations to be made to the photographs or as a result of them. All of them revolve around a common element: the extractor hood in the kitchen of the prison in Zamora. With the three-dimensional reproduction of this element on a permanent material (aluminium) as a starting point, several possible actions are developed in the models and drawings, setting out various connections (aesthetic and conceptual) between the real element and its photographic records. In the final installation four reproductions of the extractor hood (cast iron 150cm.x150cm.x100cm. each) are inverted with respect to the photograph, preventing its real function from being carried out and creating a metaphorical "closed loop" of "bad fumes", a real penitentiary nightmare. These four inverted elements are also displayed filled with earth, creating a type of container that formally resembles other elements such as funnels, meat grinders, niches or coffins, where the "bad fumes" get "purified." The installation is 450x150x150cm. It's important to highlight the close relationship between the prison in Zamora and the cemetery in Toro during this time: the people detained by the rebels and later on by the Francoist regime were first taken to the Zamora prison and from there executed in the Toro cemetery, among other places.

The exhibition includes drawings by Paula Infante Rubio and the sculpture "Wolf Fart" (Pedo de lobo), which is a metaphorical representation of the concept of minority, of what goes unnoticed and is thrown away.