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AUTHOR Virginia de Diego
DATE March 2026
EDITION 100 meters (x 5 / year) / 1 kilometer (institutional)
Cardboard, fabric, 80 gsm white recycled paper
25 x 25 x 30 cm
Edition 5 (100 m)
DL.26.002
100 meters edition
A translation of the Melilla Fence: 100 meters of its concertina wire—sharp, harrowing—transformed into delicate and ephemeral pieces of recycled paper confetti.
During a conversation with Rocío Madrid (a photographer from Málaga based in Melilla), a persistent story emerges: for years, the clothes, shoes, and blankets trapped in the fence were never removed. Until one day, everything disappears. Not for repair, not for mourning. The city is preparing for the mayor's daughter's wedding. This occasion decides what is erased.
The piece shifts this story toward an ambiguous gesture. The structural violence of the fence is reconfigured into a ceremonial object: a wedding box containing confetti. An element associated with celebration, produced from that which tears apart.
The initials and the wedding date—along with the inscription "100 meters"—define the edition. A private event contains an (impossible) measure of a border.