Focaris
Audiovisual installation
80 x 60 cm picture, text in wall, electroacoustic sound gestures made with field recordings taken from the daily labors of the Guadalajara´s Fireman
Department.
Museo de la ciudad, Guadalajara, Mexico. 2010
-Unless being contradicted I will consider the fire only terrestrial. Belongs to us. It corresponds to the characteristics of our atmosphere (there is no fire in the sun, but incandescent plasma) and this possession sense conducted to the formulation of two archaic concepts: home and fire, originated from the latin root focus, Focaris is the home -derivation of focus- and from this standpoint I imagine the first dwelling: a bonfire. Thus, the current home is an elevation of a meeting around a bonfire that we must keep alive. With that end a basic link in the order of our culture was created: the fireman, a trinity among fire - home - man, each one part of the other.
The world that we know passed through fire and given this powerful phenomenon above us it has been mythicized along the history. The fireman controls the fire and thus we assign him the mythical figure of hero. Nevertheless, any person can come be a fireman making use of something beyond the heroism or a protective wear: his bravery and nobility.-
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