Nos han dado la tierra, 2016. Installation, dimensions variable. Suitcases, soil, clothes and various objets

This installation was made in Trieste, Italy, border city where I came across with a large number of immigrants living in the old railway station.

The piece is composed of suitcases intervened in their handles. I took the measurements of a family of 5 people, so each suitcase has the height of a family member. These suitcases were filled with earth, clothes and personal belongings. It is a piece that speaks about the territory, immigration, the impossibility of the traveler to leave his land completely, to leave only with what your body can carry, and the idea of a territory in movement like our own body.