# 1.07
Storage
I expressed the concept of storage concisely in one work: the ‘Sedimentary’. The idea of storage was thus incorporated as a concept within the body of my work.
This space is a sort of measurer of the mass that I find indispensable to retain during my practice. One should never overwhelm and exaggerate with a certain abundance, neither should one ever stoop to a certain paucity. It is a container capable of holding the necessary amount that is produced during the course of my existence.
The storage is the place that helps to skim, to decide what to keep, what to allow to enter my microcosm and what to keep out. Unlike the archive, as well as storing, it can also let things go and not stop them to keep them for itself. Things inside it come and go, or go and don’t come back, but new things are always introduced.
The archive as a place of conservation and the storage as a place of impermanence can coexist, keeping pace with each other. It is the archive that takes care of the storage, taking inventories, documenting, keeping track of all the movements of what goes out and what comes in, of how it goes out and how it returns, of what happens to the things that come in and things that maybe never return.
As well as the space dedicated to their work – the studio – every artist should organise a storeroom. It is there that things can be temporarily stored and then recuperated at a later date when needed, even years later, bringing them back in front of you to connect them with each other. It is from here that it is possible to start creating one’s archive, and thus one’s discourse, thus freeing oneself of the physicality of things by eliminating the accumulation.
(Written in 2024)