Patches

This work consists of two site-specific installations, each presenting a different perspective on the act of care in relation to the history of the building in which it takes place.

The first intervention focuses on the areas of the wall that are most worn and damaged, where the plaster has peeled away and the underlying layers become visible. These areas resemble wounds and appear in the places that have endured the greatest stress over time. The act of repainting reflects a gesture of renewal: an attempt to make a space habitable again. I highlighted the worn areas using the same colors that were once produced in the factory—colors whose production also contributed to the building’s deterioration. In this way, the damaged parts are both covered and transformed, becoming the central elements of the compositions that emerge on the walls. These seemingly abstract arrangements ultimately contain the history of the building itself.

The second intervention addresses a broken section of the floor in the area where the offices once were. The hole left by the missing tiles is filled with a transparent, semi-liquid material. Its transparency allows the underlying layer to remain visible, while its fluidity evokes temporality and constant change. This work is an attempt to momentarily crystallize the history of the building, existing between past and future.

Together, these interventions explore care, memory, and transformation, revealing the material traces of time and human presence in a building that once housed industrial life.