Blind House

A car is blinded and parked in the street. What is it then?
Somebody who can see walks around in public as if she were blind, just to be walked by occassional passers-by who offer their help at the corners.
A blind house. What is it?
What kind of sounds are those emitted
by a blind body?
A house never stops emitting signals. Opaque, transparent ones.
Stories "from the house" can be taken, carried, they come with you and tell themselves.
Every opening is cancelled. To seal from inside, from outside?
I need hundreds and hundreds of kilos of clay for this task: to make a house blind.
Who wasn't ever tempted to make a house blind?

Blind House is a trial of a form of behavior: basic, structural, archetypal: to cover.
The task of blocking with clay is possible; at first the work is slow and only physical. The technique, in conceptual terms, is oriented towards security and control. In this house,
the final dysfunctionality of the materials draws suspicion towards the voluntary action of co-vering. In place of openings, the clay seems to ask itself if its purpose is so that something won't be able to go in or so that something won't be able to go out. It is doubtful if the action is a verification or a call for help.

Claudia del Río

Claudia del Río was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1957. Licensed in Arts in the U.N.R., where she also teaches. Has made many shows, won prizes and grants/scholarships. E-mail: delrioc@infovia.com.ar

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