{"id":23535,"date":"2025-04-17T01:58:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=23535"},"modified":"2025-04-22T00:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T22:47:56","slug":"mirando-el-caos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luzinterruptus.com\/?p=23535","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Chaos\/Mirando el caos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When we see images of disasters caused by climate change\u2014floods, storms, devastated landscapes\u2014there\u2019s an object that appears frequently: the monobloc chair. White, plastic, stackable, with a universal design.<\/p>\n

The monobloc chair<\/a> is one of the most widely used pieces of furniture in the world. Its simple, functional, and low-cost design has led to it being produced in the millions and used in almost every country. It appears in gardens, terraces, bars, patios, porches\u2014but above all, in the most modest homes. It\u2019s a quiet symbol of globalization: an identical object found in vastly different contexts. And in that sense, it has much in common with climate change. Both are global phenomena that cross borders, manifest everywhere, and hit hardest where there are fewer resources. That\u2019s why, in so many images of catastrophe, these chairs are there\u2014half-buried in mud, floating among ruins, forming part of the affected landscape. We were interested in working with that parallel: using the most familiar, ordinary thing to speak about something we can no longer see as distant or abstract.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we wanted to create a piece using this object\u2014so present, yet so often overlooked. An everyday icon, reproduced on a large scale, to speak of the chaos triggered by natural disasters that are increasingly frequent, increasingly close, and increasingly ours.<\/p>\n

With these chairs we will construct an illuminated sculpture, without a fixed shape. Its configuration will vary depending on the space where it is installed. Sometimes it will stretch along a street, as if dragged there by a current. Other times it will rise in the center of a square, as a precarious structure of impossible balance\u2014frozen at the moment just after impact. The chairs will be entangled, piled up, leaning against one another, with no apparent order. As if the violence of the disaster had tossed them there and they remained standing through sheer inertia\u2014or by miracle.<\/p>\n

The installation will be built using locally rented monobloc chairs, left unmodified to allow for reuse. They will be fastened together using plastic ties and wire, ensuring stability without damaging the material. Inside the structure, hidden among the chairs, cold light spotlights will be installed, programmed to flicker and move. This lighting, far from decorative, will create shifting, irregular shadows that animate the surrounding space and intensify the sense of constant tension. In front of this chaotic cluster, several rows of identical chairs will be precisely aligned for the public to sit and observe. These will also be lit from underneath, casting sharp, defined shadows that contrast with the unstable forms of the main structure. The entire installation will be created using common, rented materials available in similar versions anywhere in the world, without the need for specialized transport or waste generation. As always, we work with what already exists. With what is close at hand.<\/p>\n

With this piece, we propose an orderly place from which to watch the chaos. A scene lit by flickering, shifting lights, creating a sense of instability\u2014something that seems ready to collapse… but won\u2019t. We\u2019re in a public space, and here, no accidents are allowed. There\u2019s no tragic ending, no climax, no apocalyptic spectacle. Just a moment to stop, to sit, to look\u2014and maybe to think. Or simply to drift with the beauty of controlled chaos, on a calm evening somewhere in the first world.<\/p>\n

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Cuando vemos im\u00e1genes de desastres provocados por el cambio clim\u00e1tico \u2014inundaciones, tormentas, paisajes arrasados\u2014 hay un objeto que aparece con frecuencia: la silla monobloc. Blanca, de pl\u00e1stico, apilable, con un dise\u00f1o universal.<\/p>\n

La silla monobloc<\/a> es uno de los muebles m\u00e1s extendidos del mundo. Su dise\u00f1o simple, funcional y barato ha hecho que se fabrique en millones de unidades y se utilice en casi todos los pa\u00edses. Aparece en jardines, terrazas, bares, patios, porches, pero sobre todo en los hogares m\u00e1s humildes. Es un s\u00edmbolo silencioso de la globalizaci\u00f3n: un objeto id\u00e9ntico que forma parte de contextos muy distintos. Y, en ese sentido, tiene mucho en com\u00fan con el cambio clim\u00e1tico. Ambos son fen\u00f3menos globales que atraviesan fronteras, se manifiestan en todas partes y golpean con m\u00e1s fuerza a quienes tienen menos. Por eso, en tantas im\u00e1genes de cat\u00e1strofes, estas sillas est\u00e1n ah\u00ed, en medio del barro, flotando entre ruinas, formando parte del paisaje afectado. Nos interesaba trabajar con ese paralelismo: usar lo m\u00e1s com\u00fan para hablar de lo que ya es imposible seguir viendo como algo lejano o abstracto.<\/p>\n

Esa es la raz\u00f3n por la que quisimos crear una pieza a partir de este objeto tan presente como poco valorado. Un icono de lo cotidiano, reproducido a gran escala, para hablar del caos provocado por las cat\u00e1strofes naturales, cada vez m\u00e1s frecuentes, cada vez m\u00e1s cercanas, cada vez m\u00e1s nuestras.<\/p>\n

Con estas sillas construiremos una escultura iluminada, sin una forma fija. Su configuraci\u00f3n cambiar\u00e1 seg\u00fan el espacio donde se instale. A veces se extender\u00e1 a lo largo de una calle, como si hubiera sido arrastrada por una corriente. Otras veces se levantar\u00e1 en medio de una plaza como una estructura de equilibrio imposible, como si hubiese quedado detenida justo despu\u00e9s del impacto. Las sillas estar\u00e1n entrelazadas, amontonadas, inclinadas unas sobre otras, sin orden aparente. Como si la violencia del desastre las hubiese empujado hasta ah\u00ed y se mantuvieran en pie por pura inercia o milagro.<\/p>\n

La instalaci\u00f3n se construir\u00e1 con sillas monobloc alquiladas localmente, sin modificar, para facilitar su reutilizaci\u00f3n posterior. Estas se unir\u00e1n entre s\u00ed mediante bridas de pl\u00e1stico y alambre, garantizando estabilidad sin da\u00f1ar el material. En el interior de la estructura, ocultos entre las sillas, se colocar\u00e1n focos con luz fr\u00eda, programados para encenderse de forma intermitente y con movimiento. Esta iluminaci\u00f3n, lejos de ser decorativa, generar\u00e1 sombras m\u00f3viles e irregulares que activar\u00e1n el entorno, reforzando la sensaci\u00f3n de tensi\u00f3n constante. Frente a esta acumulaci\u00f3n ca\u00f3tica, se dispondr\u00e1n varias filas de las mismas sillas, perfectamente alineadas, para que el p\u00fablico pueda sentarse a observar. Estas tambi\u00e9n estar\u00e1n iluminadas desde abajo, proyectando sombras precisas que contrastan con las formas inestables de la escultura principal. Todo el montaje se realiza con materiales comunes de alquiler, disponibles en cualquier lugar del mundo en versiones similares, sin necesidad de transporte especializado ni generaci\u00f3n de residuos. Trabajamos, como siempre, con lo que ya existe. Con lo que est\u00e1 cerca.<\/p>\n

Con esta pieza proponemos un lugar ordenado desde el que observar el caos. Una escena iluminada por luces que parpadean y se mueven, creando una sensaci\u00f3n de inestabilidad, de algo que parece a punto de venirse abajo\u2026 pero que no lo har\u00e1. Estamos en un espacio p\u00fablico, y aqu\u00ed no se permiten accidentes. No hay final tr\u00e1gico, ni cl\u00edmax, ni espect\u00e1culo dantesco. Solo un momento para detenerse, sentarse, mirar, y tal vez pensar. O simplemente dejarse llevar por la belleza de un caos contenido en una agradable noche del primer mundo.<\/p>\n

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