¿Dónde está el tigre? Installation, Gallery Rina Bouwen- Madrid -2010

This spatial intervention was designed from Bestiario, a story written by Julio Cortázar.

It’s about a little girl who spends her summer in a house where the family’s life is under the influence of a tiger walking freely inside the house.
We never know if this tiger really does exist or not. It may be a real animal, a hallucination or just a metaphor of danger. We only know there is a risk of death being in the same room with the tiger.
The fiction develops without mentioning the animal except in some moment where its presence stops the characters’ activities.

In this installation, I explored a narrative interpretation of the space using different materials as fabrics, drawings and light.

First time I saw this space I noticed a small door that I’ve never seen before, it made me immediately think about Cortazar’s story. I thought that behind that door there was the tiger.

The installation was built around the possible presence of this tiger. The room is slightly dark, it looks like something is escaping under the door; a tiger appears in the wall drawing with its queue running out of the traps.

This work seeks to give to the spectator a sensation of doubt, mystery and danger inside this simple and quiet room.