juan alonso

ANY DAY
Nelly Barreto + Juan Alonso
Videoinstalation, Variable Dimensions, 2009

The “ANY DAY” project revolves around four human statues that earn their living on Las Ramblas in Barcelona and that have in common their status as undocumented latin immigrants:

Despite the fact that illegal immigration status is always associated with negative factors such as crime or exploitation, in this case the characters feel that their work is not only dignified, but that they like it and, most importantly, they are not exploited by nobody: they feel free and earn enough to live well in Barcelona and to send money to their families in Latin America.

The project is a video installation consisting of 50 photographs of approximately 9 cm high of these statues with various tourists on Las Ramblas. The photographs have been cut by cardboard planes to make them three-dimensional and make small statues out of these images of statues and refer to the tourist photography format.

It also consists of 3 videos installed on 9 'screens in which the history of each of these statues is narrated.

Finally there is a 170 cm high stumbling block of the Indigenous, so that the spectators can interact with him.

This project was invited to represent Colombia in the X CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNIAL OF CUENCA, in Cuenca, Ecuador, 2009 and part of this work is part of the Collection of the Art Gallery of the Cuenca Municipal Biennial Foundation.