Late in 2007 I was invited to spend a short time in Corsica to develop an art project on the island. Before arriving there what interested me most were Corsican popular beliefs and the island’s political situation, but after two weeks of work I had learnt very little of such issues and had been able to speak to very few people, given the devastation of the area in which I was staying. This situation made me draw the conclusion to carry out a kind of "false" intervention.
The work consisted of building five paper stones produced in minute detail, imitating the texture and shapes of the rocks configuring the Dolmen of Funtanaccia, which was close to the place where I was staying. One morning, the last one of my sojourn on the island, I placed the five paper stones on top of and around the megalith, changing their position every so often, simply to observe them. Ideally, I wanted for a tourist to take photos on the site without noticing the fake stones and for that to be the sole surviving documentation, lost somewhere in the world, but no one showed up. I was the only witness
Three months later, in Mexico, I decided to do my utmost to remember what the Dolmen looked like surrounded by my five false stones, and then I made a detailed drawing. The other drawing accompanied by text is all I managed to remember in connection with my sojourn in Corsica. The small images inside the circles represent experiences, the ovals are dreams I had on the island and the rectangles are artistic and literary references.
2 framed drawings
297 mm x 420 mm each
and 2 paper stones
Produced by Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokio