Asfaltos _ Asfalts 

(2020)






Installation view, Juan de Salazar Spanish Cultural Center, Asunción, 2020 (c) Cristian Palacios Feltes


The Asphalts series is an installation deployed on the floor of the room, with fragments of asphalt and urban trails collected by the artist after several floods in Asunción. Here, Baumann is committed to the careful gathering and arrangement of a number of real visual and object signs dragged by the floods; the objects compose a new sign, which is both plural and suggestive, to arouse a denser perception of reality. Thus, the pieces acquire, in the context of the exhibition, a new and unpredictable life. 


The Asfaltos series is an installation deployed on the floor of the room, with fragments of asphalt and urban trails collected by the artist after several floods in Asunción. Here, Baumann is committed to the careful gathering and arrangement of a number of real visual and object signs dragged by the floods; the objects compose a new sign, which is both plural and suggestive, to arouse a denser perception of reality. Thus, the pieces acquire, in the context of the exhibition, a new and unpredictable life. 





Installation view, Juan de Salazar Spanish Cultural Center, Asunción, 2020 (c) Cristian Palacios Feltes



The series Asphalts was part of the project Cartographies of Disobedience, a series of investigations held in Asunción, that proposes a reflection on some urban and environmental conflicts from modern cities, and the responsibility of each person as an actor involved in the processes of urban transgression and deterioration.

The series Asfaltos was part of the project Cartographies of Disobedience, a series of investigations held in Asunción, that proposes a reflection on some urban and environmental conflicts from modern cities, and the responsibility of each person as an actor involved in the processes of urban transgression and deterioration.