{"id":2831,"date":"2019-01-14T06:14:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T05:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiacaturelli.de\/portfolio-item\/der-fluss-der-erinnerung\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T12:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T10:55:36","slug":"der-fluss-der-erinnerung","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.celiacaturelli.de\/en\/portfolio-item\/der-fluss-der-erinnerung\/","title":{"rendered":"Der Flu\u00df der Erinnerung"},"content":{"rendered":"

Der Flu\u00df der Erinnerung (1995 – 2001)<\/strong><\/p>\n

spine, \/ that holds me \/ pelvis and lungs \/ liver and brain of clay. \/ soft dough \/ in which I embed my fingers \/ maybe I find my eyes \/ or my soul? \/ I look for in the red corridors of the veins, \/ between the bones of my left wrist, \/ and the little bag of tears, \/ that remains hidden in me after such a long journey. \/ I give birth to myself \/ in this black \/\u00a0warm flow of memory \/ black mass that smells of millenary leaves \/ and to the sea and siesta. \/ in summer, \/ where everything stops and the air \/ it’s like a glove.
\nSommer, 1995<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Since 1995 I work with asphalt. I heat up the bitumen and mix it with sand and wax.\u00a0I use the hot mass to create impressions of my feet, hands and fingers. I do the same with forms made out of clay to represent the internal organs as for exampel lungs, stomach, brain, etc., as well as bones. During this process – the heating, flowing and solidifying again, the asphalt is the material which helps me to remember.<\/p>\n

The body parts that arise, form my river of memory<\/em>. This river flows inexorably while each part still returns. Back to me, to the fragil presence of the human body.<\/p>\n

In the asphalt, I can smell my past, my origins, back when I was a kid playing with the fused asphalt; and even then, when I was not myself, but leaves, salt, water.\u00a0Between 1995 and 1999 I created about 450 asphalt forms .<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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