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Alicia Framis, Cartas al cielo, 2011

Alicia Framis

Cartas al cielo, 2011
Stainless steel sphere
150 cm diameter
Edition of 3/3
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To look up at the sky is a reflex action, a moment filled with hope, desire, or desperation. The sky is the place that holds our secrets, our loved ones,...
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To look up at the sky is a reflex action, a moment filled with hope, desire, or desperation.

The sky is the place that holds our secrets, our loved ones, and the afterlife.

In order to formalise that whole world, Alicia has made a post box from which the Earth's citizens will be able to send letters to the afterlife.

The post box has the shape of eternity: a sphere, with no corners, without limits. The sphere is the shape of the universe, of our world, of the other world.

The envelopes contain letters for people who have disappeared, people with no address. All these letters need a special post box.

In Spanish, sky means 'the place above us', the promised place, the place for missing people, the Promised Land. This double meaning allows for the work to have numerous readings and different functions.

This postal service to the afterlife is a poetic work that follows the line of works such as DREAMKEEPER (1997), or WISHING WALL (1998), projects that focus on our desires, dreams, and the immaterial world that we humans are made of.
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Exhibitions

Diputacion de Huesca sep 2011

Frieze Art Fair - Frieze Sculpture Park 2011

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