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The intervention of Nelson Félix occurs directly on the Mill's structure. It's about cutting out a portion of one of the floors _ of 5 by 33 feet _ sustaining it from steel cables a few inches from the floor below. The cuts open a perspective in the plane of the flagstones, following the pillars' rhythm, bringing to our perception the whole architecture. Taking to the limit the structural support of such compact construction. These elements become part of the sculptural work, that starts to embrace the whole building. But the incisions also introduce a tension, hitherto nonexistent, among the different floors, reorganizing the plans in a different way. The distance between levels, strictly the same in this building, is modified. A differential is introduced in the repetitive succession of floors.
The cuts in the building suggest Matta-Clark's cuttings. Rifts that cross floors and walls, tearing houses through the middle, articulating the construction with the surrounding, with the city's different tempos. Here, too, the incisions in an abandoned building establish other points of view, another perception of its structure and of the neighborhood.
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