La Siesta​

Hotel Mariandl, Room 20

 

I feel happy and nostalgic to have brought with me such a special moment and place — an afternoon of scorching heat, at the very hour when the whole village falls into silence. The Castilian soponcio.

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Some photos from yesterday — it’s a pity you can’t smell them from the other side of the screen. The installation is multisensory: it smells like cocido madrileño, and the air inside is heavy, warm, and almost dizzying.

La Siesta is a site-specific installation that transforms a hotel room into a climatic and sensorial capsule. Through light, synthesized field recordings, and organic materials, the work transports visitors into an unexpected territory: Castilla-La Mancha in the middle of summer.

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The room becomes a thermal and sensitive body. It invites us to perceive domestic and hotel space as an extension of our own landscape — to explore heat as an aesthetic, affective, and political medium.

The installation consists of objects, warm air, and soundscapes, composing a sensory ecology where rest becomes experience — and lingering becomes an act of subtle displacement.

A space in between: between wakefulness and dream, between the private and the geographic.