Bajo el título Esto es un agujero, se incluye una última y amplia serie de trabajos que analiza la práctica del interiorismo dentro de la institución carcelaria total y propone una aproximación a la forma y función de los objetos enmarcados en un contexto de privación de libertad, aislamiento, vigilancia y castigo.
La investigación plantea la idea de que la forma y el color de los espacios y objetos interiores del penal, como los muebles, son otra «disciplina que permite el control del cuerpo, garantizando el sometimiento de sus fuerzas e imponiendo una relación de docilidad-utilidad».
2020/ Ongoing project
Under the title Esto es un agujero (This is a hole) includes a last wide series of works that analyzes the practice of interior design within the total prison institution and proposes an approach to the form and function of objects framed in a context of deprivation of liberty, isolation, surveillance and punishment. The research raises the idea that the shape and color of the furniture are another discipline that allows control of the body, guaranteeing the subjection of its forces and imposing a docility-utility relationship.
«(…) Of all the rooms visited later, the one that enjoyed the cleanest and most neat appearance was the boiler room, full of clean pipes, thermostats and heaters. Finally, we will comment on some information that caught our attention throughout the tour. One of them was to find in one of the cells of the agitated department, locked, which was opened to us, a young man who was not at all agitated, provided with a mechanical restraint, with a plate of food on the floor and with no one to attend to him. inside the room. To our question it was answered that he had just been admitted. The other consisted of noticing inside the door, and attached to it, in one of the rooms for inmates, a ring that suggested to us was a means of mechanical fastening; which the Director of the Center corrected, clarifying that it was an «expansion joint». We estimate that we were shown practically all the departments, including some that the staff who accompanied us saw with us for the first time, and that the inmates, some of them after having entered this institution seven times, had the opportunity, with our visit , to meet the Director of the same.(…)»
REPORT ON THE PENITENTIARY PSYCHIATRIC ASSISTANCE CENTER OF MADRID (*)
Alicia ROIG SALAS, Teresa CAPILLA, Serafín CARBALLO and Enrique GONZÁLEZ DURO
(*) Report of the Legislation Commission of the Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatry presented to the Board of Directors. 1985
