Bienal de Pontevedra

Carlos Bunga transforms everyday furniture into unstable structures reminiscent of both human towers and social systems in tension. Here the figure of the saltimbanqui – the acrobat, the nomadic artist who survives on the fringes – becomes a powerful metaphor by representing those who, from below, hold spaces of hope with effort and precariousness. Stacking wood as bodies that support each other, the installation suggests a social model based on human towers of interdependence, solidarity and collective creation. The ludic and the fragile intertwine to create forms of resistance. Instead of exalting the individual as a lonely hero, the work highlights the value of the common, the cooperation that makes it possible to defy not only gravity, but also the structures of exclusion.