Infidel Meridià
Unfaithful Meridian
2018
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Infidel Meridià (Unfaithful Meridian, 2018) takes as its starting point two significative functions of the Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona (RACAB): the setting of the official time in Barcelona and the implementation and standardisation of the decimal metric system in Spain. Using RACAB’s historical objects and documents as catalysts, Mariona Moncunill puts forward a narrative through the creation of scientific conventions associated with the establishment of quantifying systems and their political and social implications, while also playing with the relationship between time and longitude, the two having been scientifically, poetically and arbitrarily linked in the process of institutionalising the measurement of time and distance. The installation consists of a video and a 3D printer in constant operation, programmed to print lines equivalent to one ten of a millionth of the quadrant of the earth’s meridian, i.e., one metre. The one-metre lines generated by the printer constitute a simple, formal translation of the relationship between time and space.

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original title
Infidel Meridià
registration number
R.6687
date
2018
fonds
MACBA Collection. Long-term loan of the Barcelona City Council
media
Inkjet print on paper, 3D printer and single-channel video, colour, sound, 28 s
credits
MACBA Collection. Barcelona City Council long-term loan
translated title
Unfaithful Meridian
year of acquisition
2024
type of object
Media installation
dimensions
Variable dimensions
Copyright
© Mariona Moncunill
original title
Infidel Meridià
translated title
Unfaithful Meridian
registration number
R.6687
date
2018
year of acquisition
2024
fonds
MACBA Collection. Long-term loan of the Barcelona City Council
type of object
Media installation
media
Inkjet print on paper, 3D printer and single-channel video, colour, sound, 28 s
dimensions
Variable dimensions
credits
MACBA Collection. Barcelona City Council long-term loan
Copyright
© Mariona Moncunill
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