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1. What is your favorite word?
I would say I don't have one, but right now it would be. attach. For work reasons I read it a lot and I have become quite fond of it.

2. What did you dream last night?
It's been a couple of weeks since I've dreamt anything concrete. Lately my dreams are like a remix of memories about people I haven't seen in a long time - and probably won't see again - and movies I've seen recently, all of it with a surreal aura.

3. Which movie has made you laugh the most?
I'm not a comedy person, but I guess the last time I laughed was at some movie that I thought was silly and therefore inconsequential. What else can I say? Most comedies are like that.

4. What song would you like to have played at your funeral?
Right now I think I would choose I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes) by The 1975. I think it's a very nice song.

5. What is your definition of «art»?
I have trouble defining art. I have read many books on the subject - in fact, I have just finished Art in a gaseous state by Yves Michaud -which, if you haven't read it, I recommend it- and I can only say that it is something that changes with time. I don't consider that much of modern art should be considered art, but I'm not someone whose impression matters either. I believe that art is highly defined by subjectivity, which makes it increasingly difficult to define it as something concrete, but I like to believe that, in order to create something minimally artistic, it requires technique and a stamp of its own; something that, nowadays, many of those considered artists lack.

6. What would be your ideal project or collaboration?
A publication where my name rubs shoulders with those of authors with trajectory. It is worth dreaming.

7. What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?
Face your problems head on, always. Don't run away from them because, in the end, they will always try to catch up with you.

8. If you could change anything in the world, what would you change?
I am not idealistic, but if I could change anything it would be the idea we have about death. I have never liked that it is an idea that arouses sadness.

9. A penguin comes into your room with a hat on. What is the first thing he says to you and why is he in your room?
The same thing that the penguin says to Edward Norton in The Fight Club: “slide” : "slide".

10. Describe (in 100 words maximum) what you do for a living.
Writer, avid reader, cultural and reading promoter.

Answers: David Salvador Rubio Esquivel
Questions: Abel Ibañez G.
Photographers: Esben Bog-Jensen