The object was constructed by reverse engineering the Bookeye scanner's outer shell using inkjet paper printed in half-tone gradients. The replica sits on a seamles red backdrop common in photographic studios. Siqueiros' mug shot is projected onto the paper construction in a continuous loop of eighty 35mm slides. We discovered the mug shot looming over the INBA scanning station, keeping the archivists company for many months.
The work's title is taken from the French term for the intermission between two acts. This intermission was conceived of as the labor performed in translating a physical archive into a digital form.
Camel asked INBA for a copy of the contract of workers responsible for using this machine. INBA's refusal to make this information public, as well as the record of scanned documents organized by the archive personnel, are part of the piece.
Exhbibited at:
En cada instante, ruptura, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico, 2010