Selected work

Oil from an Olive Tree

How much oil comes out of one olive tree?
Year2016
MaterialsOil and all residues from one olive tree
Curated byMontse Badia
CollectionCal Cego
Oil from an Olive Tree

The project begins with an apparently simple question: how much oil comes out of one olive tree?

When professional pressing of the olives from a single tree proved impossible, I carried out a manual, domestic pressing process. Everything normally discarded was kept: solids, liquids and residues. The resulting oil was calibrated and certified with the greatest possible precision.

Measurement is both the objective and the problem: answering exactly how much one tree produces also means accounting for everything that the process generates.