Black Book 88 | 2015 – now

Livro Preto 88 | 2015 – under construction

I found this book lying on the ground of a demolished house, in the middle of the rubble, unused, brand new. I appropriated it and started a book of memories built with waste that would be discarded as this book was discarded, re-signifying the residual passage of the items chosen to be part of the work.

In the first page of this notebook although was a stamp with the date of … when the book entered the office it was part of probably, and it was in 1988… I found it “brand new” in the ruins of this city construction in 2015… Therefore I named Black Book 88.

In a broad sense, those works are “talking” about restorative practices, and being sensitive to re-use instead of discard… wether we are talking about objects or … human relations, that became so discardable nowadays, I hope we can restore this bad cultural behaviour soon, and understand that things and relationships can restore, that objects can be repurposed and re-use, and people are not discardable.