AN ANGEL
INSTALLATION/2020
A machine pushes the air like a storm, as if we were inside the inflatable object itself, repressed. It resonates with Walter Benjamin's story of the "Angel of History." The angel longs to react, to do something about the pile of debris before him, but he cannot spread his wings because a storm is blowing from the paradise called progress. This echoes a real event, captured on a witness's cell phone from a balcony on El Qasr Elainy Street on January 28, 2011. Below, masses of protesters are trying to make their way through the street toward Tahrir Square, the central gathering place for the destruction of the existing regime. A machine designed to disperse the protest operates normally, trying to restore order. But suddenly, out of nowhere, we see an obstacle in flesh—a body that refuses to let the machine pass.
2 motors, metal, wood, leather, fabric, TV, Bricks
230,5 x 58 x 115
230,5 x 58 x 115
Photos ©Andrea Herrera Poblete