The work is an installation made with 1,148 declassified documents on Chile printed on paper, front and back. The installation seeks to show the volume of declassification and of censored and ignored documents. To produce
this volume, documents with different levels of folds and wrinkles were used, forming a progression that starts from a wall and is suspended in space. The documents were impregnated with transparent polyester resin to “protect” them.
The following text is written on the front wall:
Until this moment you have never thought about what is known as existence. I will explain it to you more precisely:
– Does the past exist concretely, in space? Is there somewhere, is there a world of solid objects where the past is still happening?
– No.
– Then where does the past exist?
– In documents. It is written down.
– In the documents… And where else?
– In the mind. In the memory of men.
– In the memory. Very good.
Well, we, we control all the documents and we control all the memories. So we control the past, don’t we?
(1984, Orwell)