Chronicle of Tiredness

Chronicle of Tiredness traces the history of access to housing, population control, and the debt burden of the working class, proposing a journey through different generations up to the present day. Both in my work with the Los Hijos collective and in my solo practice (New Madrid and Julio Iglesias’ House), I explore how architecture produces a social model (rather than the other way around) while engaging with questions of biopolitics, forced displacement, and the production and reproduction of identity.

With this work, I sought to bring these reflections into the present in order to address the contemporary housing crisis, tracing its roots to models of access to property that, at least in Spain, date back to the Franco dictatorship.

The film consists of five tracking shots that advance as history does: continuous movements that suggest progress while revealing the persistence of the same structural conflict: the capitalist structures of possession and dispossession that remain in place despite historical transformations. It is built by a sonic landscape that evokes bodies working and struggling tirelessly to secure a space of their own. The dialogues span decades, shaping a collective memory of labor and debt.

Ultimately, everything culminates in a final question: how does twenty-first-century anxiety sound like?