Fricciones

“The file, with its ridges, easily drains any liquid.

On the contrary, sandpaper, which is pure spray—making it more flexible and capable of reaching corners inaccessible to the file—is closer to chaos and moisture.”

—Fabio Morábito, Toolbox

Between the file and the sandpaper there is a difference in rhythm and texture. One polishes, the other erodes. Both transform the surface. That friction, which wears down and simultaneously reveals, runs through this book.

Fricciones brings together six texts that approach the city and its movements like running your hand over the hairs of a living thing: carefully, but without fear of roughness.

Here are gathered writings born when two forces touch: one that moves and another that resists. Like jeans and skin, like the city and its inhabitants. They are prolonged frictions.

In these pages, there are bodies between beds, objects in disguise. A sad dog in the night, the Mother of Bogotá pushing.

Like the jeeps described by Edward Salazar—those mobile mountains of belongings and affections—each text carries its own possessions: a lamp of Jesus, a broken suitcase, a filed-away desire. In Carlos Correa's writing, the body itself is a migrant artifact: a machine of waiting and memory.

Together, the texts by Jeniffer Fonseca, Silvie Boutiq, Nobara Hayakawa, Cuidado Perro Triste, Edward Salazar, and Carlos Correa trace a displacement where each word touches something else: humor, wounds, memories, walls, skin.

Published within the framework of Plural's Migrations 2025 program, with support from the District Program of Concerted Support (PDAC) of the District Institute of Cultural Heritage. This edition brings together the texts produced during Phase III of the program, as a record and extension of a collective process of research and creation.

María Clara Arias Sierra, curator.