Unpacked 1, 2019, compression of packing material, stuffed toy, wood, wheels, 130 x 80 x 65cm

Nowhere in Berlin, performance with boxes in public space, video

Anywheres: Performance, Objects (2017- ongoing)

A new category of nomadism appeared with the millennium: The privileged leaving their place of origin to move anywhere on the planet fitting their desires and needs of the moment. The Anywheres series is a performance that began in 2017 when the artist moved for the 25th time, from Montevideo to Europe, for an undefined destination. It continued with his moves from Geneva to Naples, Berlin, and Barcelona.

At each step, he video documented the movement of objects kept in boxes and packaging and made outdoor installations with them. With the packaging material, boxes, videos, and elements of furniture that he has developed for his nomadic life, he stages in installations and through objects the impressions that arise from the logistical fact, from the rupture with life, the solitude of new places and the hope of new beginnings.

Contemporary Nomadism

Journalist David Goodhart tried to explain Brexit by the divide between the “Somewheres” and the “Anywheres”. The latter would be liberal and highly educated professionals at ease in the globalized world; conversely, the first would be rooted in a local community. The artist, struck by the accuracy of the concept, took it out of context and oriented his investigation to expatriates and other wealthy or fortune-seeking itinerants who move around the world in search of sunshine, landscapes, lower taxes, or legal safe-heavens. This nomadism has become possible because the new power of the neoliberal era is exercised essentially through capital markets and technology, no longer through the control of bodies and labour. Those with this power can develop and maintain it while free from attending to a specific community. Cyber communication combined with the freedom of capital flows, tax competition between states, and the inevitable differences in liberty and quality of life in different places has thus become the new camels and oases of a new class of nomads. They can thus free themselves from the climatic or political constraints linked to a place to live and work happily in a chosen elsewhere while benefiting from the economic advantages of New York, London, or Paris. In Lisbon, they easily design what is produced in Tunisia and sold under a Milanese brand. In the sun of Tulum, they develop their algorithms to make transactions in Shanghai or Wall Street for Bavarian clients.