Raquel Meyers is a Spanish artist who defines her practice as KYBDslöjd (mecanografía expandida), which can be roughly defined as that materializes text characters and typing beyond the screen, and questions our parasitic relationship with the technology. KYBDslöjd is not merely an arbitrary intervention: it’s based on and refers to the typewriter, Concrete Poetry, Demoscene, and Brutalism. The typewriter contributes to the execution, while poetry contributes to a system, a brutal language that should be learnt. The characters are used without ornament, like concrete in Brutalist architecture, capturing the spirit and the contradictions of its time.
Raquel belongs to a generation which, above all, has been electrocuted by technologies; she believes that irony and cynicism seem to have taken us to a precarious state of acceptance and resignation. She works with so-called obsolete technologies like Commodore 64, Teletext, Typewriters, and Fax.
