Tripalium

sound sculpture
Dimensions: 102 x 98 x 40 cm
digital Sound: (14:28:00). Reproduction loop with a stereo speaker 

Tripalium is a sound sculpture, the device where the sound emerges is a table covered  in  leather, over the surface of the ironing board, in the right hand there is an iron made in white cement. In front of the iron there is a pile of shirts hanged and sewed to the table with white thread. Over the shirts there is a stack of salt.  From the ironing board emerge a constant sound of a vapor iron, a watery sound melted with a breathing sound of a body. 

Tripalium is a word from latin language, it was a kind tool of torture used in the slavery, this background is the origin of of word work, in spanish trabajo. Tripalium takes the time of women in the textile industry, those who work in an iron section. The sound reproduce  the breathing and the breathe out of a person  during a long day of work

For a long time I have seen some works that have been more technical and made in mass production by the textile  industry such as the iron work. I use organic materials such as leather to cover the ironing board, and from this material talk about the contact of the sensitive body with the matter during a day of work and perhaps the possibility of making more human the objects to work with. Although, the iron made in cement denature the domestic object. The iron changes from a warm to a cold object and this weird it. 

Over the left side of the ironing board there are white shirts and over them salt, a material associated to the nature transform, the food, it has been used to pay the work before the coin, is associated to the sweat of the forehead, thence there a connotation of punishment  associated to the work. My work observe  the participate of the body in the work and point the residue of it and existence of the other