Exhibition Rooms at the UNED Centre, Calatayud.
May 2013
Curator: María Jesús Buil
Profession: Pep Carrió
When working with Pep Carrió, you have to set aside a few hours a week for discreet, almost hidden tasks that transcend the public domain from time to time. We will list a few without attempting to exhaust the inventory: dragging stones, carrying wood from ruins and shipwrecks, acquiring odds and ends, drawing, rummaging through rubbish, cutting out old publications, photographing, accumulating objects abandoned by others, drawing, sawing, nailing, editing, drilling, punching, tying, drawing, transferring, waxing, editing, polishing, photographing, filing, packing, knotting, drawing. None of these tasks have predefined settings, which is why they can be carried out anywhere in the world, although they are naturally undertaken in Madrid.
Finally, working as Pep Carrió requires going to bed when night falls, perhaps a little later; in this respect, it is not very different from other professions. In fact, the only difference between Pep Carrió and the rest of humanity is that his profession is named after him.
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