VOID24x24
VOID24X24FUENCARRAL4
The artwork is granted space in the urban environment to live, interact, evolve, and eventually disappear. Eternity and artificial preservation are removed from the equation. THE VOID IS THE ARTWORK.
CONTEXT: THE CITY THAT CANNOT TOLERATE EMPTINESS
Calle de Fuencarral 4, Madrid. A utility box covered in deteriorated advertising, surrounded by garbage bags waiting for night collection. The urban system operates at maximum saturation — 32 WiFi networks and 111 unique Bluetooth devices crossing the metal simultaneously. The city does not tolerate emptiness.
OPERATION VOID24X24
On March 31, 2026 at 21:54:44h, the extraction begins. A 24×24cm fragment is extracted from the box at 21:59:43h. The extraction creates a living pixel in the informational saturation of the city — not an absence, but a window to the void, to non-operativity. A brief impasse in the middle of chaos.
At 22:04:47h — 5 minutes and 4 seconds after the extraction — an operator arrives and covers the void with a new advertising poster. The system restores itself automatically, without instruction. This moment is documented on video: 18 seconds in which two systems are visible simultaneously — the artistic protocol that creates absence, and the urban system that cannot tolerate it.
The artwork is solely the VOID. The video is the forensic result of its erasure, inseparably linked to this token. The physical fragment is preserved as archive. Together they form the complete system: extraction, measurement, registration, erasure, documentation.
IFD: 1384 — 32 WiFi networks + 111 unique Bluetooth devices
- Date31/03/2026
- LocationCalle de Fuencarral 4, Madrid (Spain)
- Coordinates40.420392N, 3.701488W
- Time SyN21:54:44 — 22:04:47 CET
- Temp12°C
- Apparent temperature9°C
- Wind26 Km/h NE
- ToolCutter
- ActionSubtraction
- Humidity62%
- SupportUrban Utility Box (Metal)
- ContextUrban advertising saturation / System response
- IFD1384 — 32 WiFi networks + 111 unique Bluetooth devices