COMIENDO PALABRAS-EATING WORDS-吃的话-WENN DU ISST
2021
2 x Napkin boxes design (500 copies), 105 x 105 x 30 
in collaboration with ​潘开建 (Pan Kaijian)

This work, born in a time when international travel and human movement was restricted due to the pandemic of Covid-19, is a collaboration between two artists in two different corners of the world. Originally, it was conceived as a napkin artist book, but due to certain technical difficulties, it transformed into the design of two napkin boxes as seen in Chinese restaurants. On them, we can witness a collaboration where distance and language are not barriers for artistic exchange. The work deals with the topics of food, communication and mistranslations in a transnational exchange where neither of the participants talk the same language. The title of the work, 'Comiendo palabras' refers to when we talk and accidentally miss words, affecting to the final sense of the message. But thanks to new technologies, a good disposition and the always omnipresent Wechat translator, communication happens.