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Paraaabonar


Paraaabonar is a translation of the organic material coffee and its industrial surroundings. This installation is framed by a window frame found on the streets. The window frame is decorated with serigraphs and papers, translating to the repetitive work ethic produced by coffee. The act of re-using found material, like a window frame and discarded coffee is a eco-political act in and of itself. 

As a result of trying to understand the everyday environment, the coffee bean is the representation of the earth according to Graquandra. Coffee, in its extracted everyday life, is the Earth infiltrating the consumerist system of hyper-production. On each block, coffee is an agrarian representation, it is memory squeezed with water, it is resistance. We drink the diuretic that makes us crave it. The accumulation of grains and granules acts as a contribution to the decolonial movement.
Exhibited in l’Occulta, Barcelona, Spain (2023).
Close up of the messages which hang on the worked window frame. 
Mixed material, commandments silkscreened canvas, diverse paper, 
coffee grounds, beads, coffe beans and collage


Frottage from the En Granitos performance done at the Cristóbal Colón monument in Barcelona. Frottage depicts the plaque which commomerates the 400th aniversary of the discovery of America.
1/1 mixed media publication, explaining the process, En Granitos performance and the commandments which hang on the window frame.
As a result of trying to understand the everyday environment, the coffee bean is the representation of the earth according to Graquandra. Coffee, in its extracted everyday life, is the earth infiltrating the consumerist system of hyper-production. On each block, coffee is an agrarian representation, it is memory squeezed with water, it is resistance. We drink the diuretic that makes us crave it. The accumulation of grains and granules act as a contribution to the decolonial movement.