This palindrome is known as The Devil’s Verse.

It was believed that the devil spoke “in reverse”; hence the mystery and fascination surrounding this phrase, which can be read both from right to left and from left to right.

The palindrome “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni,” which translates as:

“We wander in the night and are consumed by fire,”

speaks to us about the cyclical nature of things, through the eternal cycles of light and darkness.

The night represents the space in which we confront our own shadows; fire, in turn, is the agent of transformation that burns away the old to make way for the new: destroy in order to create.

Installation presented in the new edition of Madre City, an urban art collective based in Fuenlabrada that promotes street art, exhibitions, and live artistic interventions.