A pedestal broken into pieces seems to be dismantled in the middle of the road; part of it is still hanging from a crane. The large piece of concrete balances slowly above the road, driven by the wind, in the middle of the day.
Our cities are a theater of powers that try to direct our vision. National narratives are a puzzle made of fragmented histories, interests, and, above all, political positions. The public space is that book written by different forces, in which we are reminded minute by minute of what it means to be a nation, who our heroes are, who we should revere, and who we should reject in a very frontal and naïve way.
Iván Argote creates a mise-en-scene where a massive pedestal, this hierarchical object, is presented broken, which looks like the removal of a past monument. The installation functions as a question mark in the middle of the city, suggesting to imagine other ways of talking about our complex histories. A monument to a disintegrating power.
