NN: Encuentros solitarios con cuerpos melancólicos |
NN: Lonesome Encounters with Melancholic Corpses
2015 - Ongoing

LIMAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima (2017)
CCE - Centro Cultural de España en Santiago (2015)

As a kind of epilogue to the Land without Bread project, Franco developed NN: Lonesome Encounters with Melancholic Corpses complex a seres of found objects that where originally presented in two rooms of the Spanish Cultural Centre in Santiago.[1] An indifferent time, inaccessible to the temporal experiences of the subject and the museum logics of preservation that are also echoed in other objects forming part of the montage, such as a tooth whose form is outlined against a light box, a bull’s horn protruding from the wall like some old hunting trophy, and a monumental agave leaf with the word “Romy” carved into it, displayed in a see-through glass case in emulation of some natural relic—the petrified body of an extinct reptile, for instance. Over all these objects looms the rope that hangs down, weighted by a drill bit, from a corner of the ceiling.