Blank

BLANK

(videoperformance, 4 originals plus 1 A.P., 3'41’’, 2025)
(9 photographs, 25 x 25 cm, 2025)

BLANK is conceived in two formats: video performance and photography. The entire work is a metaphor, identifying paper with Alzheimer's disease. In the video performance, Andreu appears on screen and sits in a chair in front of a white wall; she looks at the camera, and her gaze is seemingly normal. This dementia is represented by three white sheets of paper, three phases of the disease, which successively take hold of the artist's mind. Initially, she senses something strange, still recognizing that something loose and odd is happening, but it's already there: the paper has come to stay. She still looks at the camera. By adding a second piece of paper—representing the progression of the disease—her gaze becomes lost, disoriented, until the disease (the white paper) takes over her face, her very being. The paper reveals new shadows and lights that hint at the basic forms of a nose, a mouth, and an eye: they correspond to an advanced stage of the disease; the same person is no longer recognizable. She has lost all self-awareness, and only her caregivers know what has happened. Alzheimer's has won; only paper remains. Only space.

In the nine photographs, BLANK reflects the development of the video performance in nine stages. Nine years of living with the disease.