15 A ruinous situation obliges us to understand what generated this state, compelling the need for change directed towards another state that will rebuild what remains, and a questioning of the overall reason why this situation was reached. Debris implies a previous demolition, in other words, the existence of a construction that became debris as the result of a deliberate demolition or an occasional collapse, one left without any solution, like a building site with no definite use or plan to find one. In this case, the demolition is an action that is the driving force behind the cause and its consequence. Furthermore, if we consider the literal meaning of the title of this section, diving among the debris involves the presence of two elements, a “twofold gesture”; the solidity of the debris, generally consisting of stone and sand and fragments of iron and concrete, is examined by the suspended will of the diver, generally submerged in water. Sticking one’s head among the debris means carefully determining the state of preservation or deterioration of what is being analysed. The quotation from Jacques Derrida, included as an additional exhibit, proposes a variant on the causality of demolition/collapse and ruin; it proposes restarting a process that de-constructs what has been constructed without necessarily bringing about its destruction, but rather engaging in a rhetorical questioning of the construction; and in this sense it is possible to understand the institution of art that is housed in an institute of modern art. Weaknesses and strengths of an institutional space that has the will – and need – to start again.
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