Alle reden vom Wetter.
Wir auch
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The installation Alle reden vom Wetter. Wir auch [Everybody Talks About the Weather. We Do Too] follows Carrasco’s extensive research on Supermax prison systems, paying special attention to the constructive model of Stammheim (in Stuttgart, Germany) prison where the first leaders of the RAF guerrilla were locked up, tried and later unofficially executed in the context of the German Autumn. 

During the entire time of the trial (from May 21, 1975 to April 28, 1977), the prisoners were held in total isolation, so they only saw the outside through the particular windows of the building, remaining inside at all times. Even the courtroom itself was built inside the prison to prevent any escape or external contact.

Carrasco makes a video in which he proposes, from the maximum temperatures in degrees Celsius recorded during those 708 days, a chromatic equivalence. He does this by converting them to Kelvin degrees, taking as a reference the color temperature measurement system. Thus, a literal transliteration of these figures is turned into a cadence in which it visually encodes the information, showing one second of color for each day. 

The four monitors, which are arranged to replicate the shape of Stammheim’s windows, throw towards the wall the chromaticism behind which this entire database is encrypted, information from a time when the inmates had their windows as their only relationship with the outside.