L'esprit d'escalier

A two channel video installation commissioned by MACBA, Barcelona, for the exhibition "Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia" 2008-10-23 until 2009-01-06

Each of the seven major department stores of Barcelona is represented by a dual camera recording of one escalator ride. All seven recordings are stitched seamlessly into a two minute loop and rear projected inside a specially constructed hallway.