Through monotonous motion on a deserted road, viewers are confronted with an attempt to transport a mattress placed on the roof of a moving car, without being tied. Oscillating between the possible and the impossible, the situation contains equal chances of success and failure, action and collapse. Failure in this case will also be considered a success, as it will reaffirm a physical natural law.
Originating in a similar situation randomly encountered by the artist in the urban space, the experience is reconstructed in a sequestered peripheral southern space. The event's displacement from its original setting where it was experienced through multiplicity and excess of motion and stimuli, into a quiet setting, does not necessarily reinforce its presence. Its isolation emphasizes the gap between the belief in the ability to act and the inability to realize that belief. The act of reconstruction turns out to be a contradiction in terms since a true reconstruction is not possible, and viewers are, in fact, confronted with a new event.
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