
(2018) Partitures / Words, phrases. Excerpts from Extima
Extima the One and All
2012-2018
Installation (various formats): inscribed bedsheets from Extimum (2018), atril, “Partitures”, sound loop, video (performance EXTIMA 2016), public readings, poster walls origin (2002)
Extima — The One and All unfolds as a layered and evolving body of work that navigates between the autobiographical and the public, the intimate and the political. Emerging from a collection of handwritten poster texts produced between 2001 and 2002, during a period marked by the Argentine economic crisis and personal migration, the work spans nearly two decades of material, spatial, and linguistic exploration. The piece comprises fictional diaries interwoven with fragments from newspapers, grammatical exercises, idiomatic expressions, and daily observations in a newly acquired language. These writings are inscribed on bedsheets—blankets sourced in Brno—transformed into text-bearing surfaces that blur the line between public report and private voice. The handwritten block letters, mimicking the authority of newspaper typography yet rendered on fragile fabric, challenge both the form and content of official discourse.
Conceptually, the textile elements play a central role in the work’s articulation. Though industrially produced, the blankets become carriers of memory and sites of transformation. Their reuse as inscribed surfaces aligns with traditions in textile-based artistic research, where the material functions as both archive and utterance, resonating with histories of protest, care, and displacement. The blanket—typically associated with sleep, comfort, or shelter—is here recontextualized as a linguistic skin, hosting migrant traces and reactivated speech. The act of inscribing by hand collapses the boundary between writing and weaving, turning language into a tactile experience—a material voice.
Exhibited in various formats—wall-hung textiles, sound installations, micro-performances (such as Kunstzelle, Vienna), and poster walls (La Mia Camera, Mein Zimmer, Mi Cuarto, My Room)—the work invites open and shifting readings. It references the theatrical structure of Bertolt Brecht and Paul Dessau’s Der kaukasische Kreidekreis, the philosophical reflections of Jacques Derrida in Monolingualism of the Other, and the quiet labor of linguistic and cultural translation.
As critic Ruth Horak writes in her essay Notensatz, “Herrero’s inscriptions become increasingly cultivated… her original diary entries are transferred into a stable, deliberate script. Were we not literate, we might read them as drawings.” In this light, Extima — The One and All performs an enduring gesture of survival and presence, where text becomes textile, and identity is unspooled, folded, and rewritten in more than one language.
… following Jaques Derrida in “The monolingualism of the other” I found myself referring as well, with reserves, to a “deconstruction” whose unique definition in some ways by fortune was venturous: “more than one language”.

(2018) The Blankets Programm

(2018) Kunstrasse, Imst Tirol

(2011) La Mia Camera / Lateinamerica Institut

(2014) La Mia Camera in the telephone cell, detail objects / WUK, Kunstzelle

(2012) La Mia Camera expanded / WUK, Projektraum

(2012) La Mia Camera expanded, detail flying bed silhouette / WUK, Projektraum








REM 1:1
[ISBN: 978-3-902796-57-8]
Expanded media- among which:
(2018) THE BLANKET’S PROGRAMM
various pieces installation; inscripted bedsheets from “Extimum” 2018, atril and “Partitures”, speakers, sound in loop, video (micro-performance EXTIMA 2016)
(2018) LMC EXTIMA / KUNSTRASSE IMST
various pieces installation -site specific; inscripted bedsheets 2018, atril, partitures, speakers, sound in loop, excerpts of Sonnig
(2016) micro-performance EXTIMA
10′ / Kunstzelle 10 Jahre
Texts and Media
Opening and Artist’s talk with Ruth Horak / medo space Vienna (excerpt)

(2012) Extimum / inscribed blanket
(2016) Extima in stills from the micro-performance EXTIMA 10′ / Kunstzelle 10 Jahre

(2016) micro-performance EXTIMA 10′ / Kunstzelle 10 Jahre

(2002) 10 in Deutsch from the Posterseries

(2017) Performative readings live REM 1:1 with Ruth Horak / MQ 21

(2002) Posterseries / wir schlafen alle zusammen, Duo show with Gerald Fresacher in the gallery behind MQ which doesn’t exist anymore

(2014) La Mia Camera, My Cuarto, Mein Zimmer, My room / Atelier Frankfurt

(2012) Extimum / Folded as newspapers

(2012) Insomnia / Paper rolled with notes