Contralodesconocido Company, 2015
Off-Biennale Budapest, 2015
Interactive Installation
Haj-Sokk Fodrász Szalon
Over these past years, my travel experiences have continuously brought me to different places. I have received and left behind many used objects (wardrobes, beds, tables, lamps, pots, clothes etc.). I have considered the possibility of meeting the previous owner, to know, for example, how that black stain got on the racket that I sport, as if I was the one who stained it. Every small mark on these objects has a story, an episode in the life of a person who I could meet and get to know.
For this reason I imagined a store where it would be possible to find a card on every used article, baring the photograph and personal information of the person to whom it previously belonged, in order to potentially contact them.
"Contralodesconocido Company" is a trademark which takes advantage, with coherence, of the same slogans which major commercial companies use, for example: "denim makes people to come together to have a fun and explore the whole world."
The project intends to create a social market, which places attention on people and their stories through an article of clothing or object. It consists of a symbolic utopic market, without money, where people can meet each other and socialize, in order to create a multicultural panorama - a space to know, communicate, understand and accept.
