GIRONDO POEM

Year: 2000

Dimensions: 800 x 300 cm

Materials: wooden bars

The work was first exhibited at the Museo Instituto de América de Santa Fé, Granada, Spain. “Fernando Castro Flórez says:
“[...] Aro has written on a wall of the museum a poem by Oliverio Girondo that is a litany of love, which begins by talking about the gaze, the premonition and the desire, underlined by the precariousness.”

Oliverio Girondo’s poem:
“They look at each other, they sense, they desire,
They caress, they kiss, they undress,
They breath, they lie down, they smell,
They penetrate, they suck, they change,
They fall asleep, they awake, they light up
, They lust, they tremble, they fascinate each other,
They chew, they taste, they dribble,
They blend together, they couple, they fall apart,
They feel drowsy, they die, they come together,
They distend, they arch, they move,
They tangle up, they stretch, they heat up,
They strangle, they squeeze, they shudder,
They grope, they join together, they fail,
They repel, they irritate, they desire,
They attack, they intertwine, they clash,
They crouch down, they seize, they dislocate,
They perforate, they embed, they bombard,
They faint, they revive, they glow,
They contemplate, they inflame, they become mad,
They melt, they knit together, they burn,
They tear, they bite, they burn,
They tear, they bite, they kill,
They revive, they search, they clash,
They flee, they hide, they surrender.”