The archive: BAM is a project based on an found archive. During the 2008 crisis, some companies decided that printing T-shirts with their logos was not necessary anymore. Then a small silkscreen atelier began to have economic problems. It was located in a small town called Sa Pobla in the center of Mallorca, just 17 kilometers far from my place. When the owner of that workshop moved, he left more than 100 silkscreen frames and other material. The bank wanted to throw all that stuff to the garbage. But someone thought that I might be interested in it.
I got about 80 of those silkscreen frames, with more than 100 logos of companies and associations based in the Balearic islands; hotels, restaurants, bars, discos, rent a car, sanitary service, sport clubs, and so on. It’s a long list of corporate image from the 90s till 2008, and now I’ve realized it’s a kind of temporary archive of the islands. Just a part of our everyday history.
I said archive because it’s not only all the prints editions that I did with all these screens, there is also the possibility to create maps, graphics, and speculation stories about it. Aesthetic, tourism, economy, crisis questions came to my brain.
The BAM editions: 10 silkscreen works on paper, about 10 areas in the balearic islands, one in Menorca and nine in Mallorca. 2020
