“The last time I visited my grandmother Luz, from whom my mother and I inherited our name, at the nursing home, I thought: there is nothing that scares us more than bodies that smell of death. I thought about the obsolescence of bodies, about residual bodies. About nursing homes, like recycling centres for technological objects, a dumping ground for what does not fit in the world and which we patiently wait for time to make disappear. Then I thought that this is exactly what we do with the memory of our own lives, our families, with the memory of peoples. The waste we accumulate and pile up on the outskirts, where we cannot see or smell it, is not only material, but also narrative, historical and human. In La buena obra (The good work), we witness forgetting as a biological, historical and cultural process. Bodies over the age of 65, on the margins of the economic cycle, officially unproductive, disintegrate before our eyes”. (Luz Arcas)

The project features approximately eight people over the age of 65 who will be selected by audition in each city where La buena obra( The good work) is performed.