Marxist Leninist Red Separatist

Barcelona.
2018

Site-specific

Francesc Vila Vila, great-grandfather of Marc Sellarès, councilor of the Union of Rabassaires (UR) in Guardiola de Bages, was sentenced to death (1939 to 1941) in the Model prison in Barcelona for “Marxist Leninist, red separatist”. Eventually the death penalty was commuted to 9 years in prison and forced labor. 80 years later, Marc Sellarès is locked up for a few hours in a cell of this prison to perform an action. Using an electronic device, it transforms his heartbeat in real time into light and sounds that floods the entire gallery. Viewers look through the doorway to see the motionless author sitting in the center of the cell connected to the electronic device.

Political prisoners of yesterday and today are linked by the same crime by a corrupt and oppressive Spanish state.