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Item: Llevar les angines a través de tres generacions
2022
Film
Materials: 16mm film projection, duration: 5’ 32”
Collection: Courtesy of the artist.
"The territory and staging of upbringing determine the knowledge that shapes us and that we will go on performing — the living inheritance of our elders. Later we die, and the knowledge remains and continues to act, remains so that forever olive oil will cure sore throats when rubbed onto the wrists, as it happens, among other places, in eastern Spain. It will slide, as we see in the hands of three women, of three generations. “To do it, one must break the tonsils”, Laura Palau tells us, using the fat of the olive to break the tendons that cross the wrists. It requires that contact, to squeeze the body as though extracting its own oil; one must touch the bone and exert force. The olive pit is “a small torpedo of very hard wood that can sometimes easily penetrate all the way to the heart”, Ponge writes elsewhere.
Laura tells us that her grandmother, the eldest of those three women, has already died, and that she likes to see her projected here in Belgium, where she lives nowadays." (excerpt from A sponge, a text by Javi Cruz)
