Burros muertos y dedos perdidos [Dead Donkeys and Lost Toes] (2025)
Artist’s book. Printed on Hahnemühle 100g rice paper
30,5 x 22,5 cm (closed); 61 x 84 cm (open)
BA Collection
Inventory No.: 2025.616.1
Ordóñez’s artwork is focused on exploring working spaces and bodies, addressing the relationship between production, repetition and transformation using different materials. He produced different pieces for this project which start from the symbolic figure of the donkey, toes lost under metal-tipped work boots, the rope or the human being that travels using public transport. The donkey –also the alter ego of the human being in the current production system – emerges as a symbol of resistance and sacrifice, and also of stubbornness and marginalization. Its death evokes abandonment, enforced futility, the disappearance of what had been essential at some time. The fragility of the presence and the symbolic load are explored in the repeated image, in its material insistence.