GLIMMERS

RIVER

JOEL J

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MENEZ

CASTLE

ABOUT

PANADELLA

Velvet tapestry printed with a patterned collective portrait, hanging from a found wooden branch in the textile colony landscape
Replica vintage television broadcasting news footage of the 1979 fire at the Central Penitentiary of Costa Rica
“Vintage painted postcard depicting the Central Penitentiary of Costa Rica, later transformed into the Children’s Museum
Archival photograph with hand-painted intervention showing the 1979 symbolic explosion marking the closure of the Central Penitentiary
A collage of archive images depicting different elements of the Boruca cosmology and culture
View of the Llobregat River, which powered the textile colonies and served as a leisure space for workers
Scale model of the factory owner’s house positioned above the textile colony, asserting authority over the surrounding buildings
An archive image of my father resting in bed combined with an ultrasound of his shoulder during his ALS
Film still from La Panadella of a woman watching a laundry machine spin, her gaze fixed on the rotating drum
Black-and-white archival photograph of a hummingbird, appearing ethereal against a dark background
A hummingbird sitting and whispering on the shoulder of a man
Simulated submarine periscope installation showing the Children’s Museum of Costa Rica represented as an island
Water-soluble textile print molded by controlled exposure to water and suspended from a rusted textile machine part
Recreated early twentieth-century prison cell inside the former Central Penitentiary of Costa Rica
Sealed factory wall with cement-filled windows that prevented workers from seeing the outside landscape
A floating hummingbird nest with two bird skeletons resting inside