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In the early 1960s Eduardo Chillida engaged into a dialog with the German philosopher Martin Heidegger.

When the two men met, they discovered that from different angles, they were " working " with space in the same way.

Heidegger wrote: " We would have to learn to recognize that things themselves are places and do not merely belong to a place ," and that sculpture is thereby "... the embodiment of places.

" Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact.

Sculpture shows us how we belong to the world, a world in the midst of a technological process of uprooting and homelessness.

Heidegger suggests how we can still find room to dwell therein.