Like an Old Enemy. Chuso Ordi

Like an Old Enemy stems from an illustration by the artist relating to the AIDS crisis that was published in the newspaper Nou Barris 9 in 1993 as well as a 1989 photograph about refusing to perform military service. Nine identical heads, one of them in negative in the centre, encapsulate the slogan ‘silence = death’ and displace the one in the middle: any body can occupy any head. This figure reappears at the heart of a graphic and audiovisual installation that triggers a fragmented memory. The proposal reflects on two impositions that marked a generation: the threat of the disease and militarism, mechanisms that controlled the body, sexuality and dissent. Thirty years later, the piece gives a voice to this figure by raising questions about the place that we occupy.