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Deutsche Bank, Amsterdam. 2001-2002
From the series: Umbrales/Thresholds
Those intermediate places, transit places, which don't seem to mean anything in themselves, or to exist, are the ones that interest Ribas the most. In "Umbrales" (Thresholds), 2001-02, he shows us a series of doors in the space immediately before a door in big financial companies. Nothing perceivable in the images tells us that we are at the entrance of those new cathedrals of power that are banks, financial firms, where the money is. That exiguous but essential space, the small surface before the entrance, is symbolic. Its very existence speaks of the passing of time, of future events, of desperate situations... Everything exists in a space of a few meters that simple serve the purpose of harboring an imaginary story, hundreds of situations experienced by so many people that will cross those thresholds all over the world, a fine line separating wishfulness from reality, hope from despair.
The importance of detail, of that formal minimalism, that direct and thorough way of showing the place, without excesses, simply complying with a reality that speaks to us of imaginary stories exclusively based on all the literature the threshold can arouse in our mind. The threshold, that place we go through perhaps without giving it much of a thought, witness of steps, of stories, of frustrated wishes...
(Translation: Marina Torres)
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