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Item: Onda corta

2012

Book, 21.5 cm x 14 cm, 103 p, language: Spanish, publisher: New:York: Jorge Pinto Books Inc., ISBN: 9781934978719.
Materials: ink, paper

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2025/477).

Literary synopsis

Onda Corta is a short novel written in stream-of consciousness form in 50 short sections.

Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice

"Onda Corta is a delirious work, with a demanding and magnetic prose, by Pablo Helguera. It is a literary performance of different forms of talk - at once sleepless, unpredictable and entirely dedicated to the exaltation of idiosyncratic subjects; uncontrollable and exposed. [...] Onda Corta creates improbable assemblies in scenes of material and metaphoric transmutations."

- Roberto Tejada, prologue.

Novel's website

Authorship: Artist Author.

Creative Strategy: No Link to Artworks.

Genre: Absurdist, Prose poetry.

Publishing: Publishing House.

Theme: Performative Language.

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