Entitled 4'
33" minutos de silencio de minutos de silencio (2020),
this triptych is inspired by John Cage's three-movement musical work 4'33”
(1952). While interpretations of Cage's score emphasize ambient sounds, the
silent video records images of politicians, drivers,
athletes, and spectators standing in mass silence to
honor those who have died in accidents, terrorism, or natural disasters. Here,
Sala appropriates television images from various channels around the world to
create a metalanguage of minutes of silence with minutes of silence, without
wasting the ambivalence and triggers that the idea of the absurd can also
activate.