Eugenia Calvo's project consists in an intervention at the Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC) in Montevideo by means of a simple action: the removal of the planks that cover the original floor in order to recover it and reveal a construction layer that was concealed by refurbishment.
This minimal action reinstates the history of the prison to this place as well as the vicissitudes of the building, a construction that was later recycled and turned into an art space.
Due to this removal action, the site of the intervention presents a vibrant surface of calcareous designs with a glow that entices the eye and which Calvo symbolically brings back to life. It is the floor of the EAC control tower, which appears to have the vigour of a dormant animal beyond a moat that can only be seen through a glass.
Polishing and lighting -setting apart an existing territory with a rhythmic energy, appears to be the procedure of some hidden speculation. Such a presumption makes the hidden and the dark the driving force of knowledge, and contradictions, it's possible gateways.
