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Across the Slope | 2008 | Modified Seat 131 and constructed floor | Installation view at the Centre d'Art Santa MòniCA | Barcelona

Across the Slope

In my solo show at Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, summer 2008, I built and installed a car atop a manmade slope in the gallery. The car is a Seat 131 which in the 70’s became the dream of emancipation for the working class. It is a modified Seat 131, a Spanish version of the Italian Fiat 131 and Turkish Tofas, Murat 131 which was a very common and affordable middle-class car during the '70s and '80s in Europe and Turkey. Especially in Turkey, modifying a basic car is very common. But the interesting part for me is that even if you modify a car to make it look much fancier, its capacity remains the same. Also, wherever you place it, a slope is always a slope, and it is always possible for a car to get stuck on one.