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Hotel Mariandl, Room 20

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La Siesta is a site-specific installation that transforms a hotel room into a climatic and sensory capsule. This idea arose from my childhood memories of summer in Castilla-La Mancha. With this work, I want to reconstruct the suspended temporality of the siesta; while we try to get some sleep, the next day's meal cooks slowly. Cocido Madrileño.

Through controlled hot air, the aroma of the cocido madrileño (cooked during the exhibition), the modulation of light and layered soundscapes. The installation shifts the familiar environment of the hotel to a geographically and emotionally distant territory. Objects from the hotel were minimally altered to produce this shift. A map of Munich was replaced by a geographical map of Mondejar, my village. 

 

Flies caught during the summer in Spain were relocated to the hotel room. On the hotel pillow, I knitted an incomplete verse from a song my mother used to recite to my sister and me before bedtime, and crocheted rugs sewn by my grandmothers were placed on the table. These objects function as carriers of memory within the space. La Siesta ultimately proposes a way of feeling where climate, architecture and domestic rituals shape a bodily experience.

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