EDÉN
2021- ongoing
Publication project/ installation
Once the last flags were cut down and turned into firewood/
Their colors unveiled as whims, mirages/
When people took the wood to turn it into weapons/
Having human homes being occupied/
And the sea had taken the place that corresponds to the land/
Being the busts lying on the ground/
And the structures reduced to pebbles/
Dogs betrayed their masters/
And the vegetable sprouts made their way through the concrete/
Standing as the only monuments.
This is the starting point of a story about the end of times, dogs, ants, fire, plants, dust and the human determination not to perish. Eden is an ongoing editorial project that will take the form of a graphic novel but that, in the meantime, explores the possibility of existing in the exhibition format. It is a rhythmic narration, gradually recounting a series of catastrophic events, many of which seem strangely familiar. The narration is articulated through the description of the state of the world at the moment in which it seems to come to an end, or at least the world as we humans have shaped it. The voice of an omniscient narrator jumps from one catastrophic event to another and stops at certain moments that show the reaction of different actors in this apocalyptic theater:insects, dogs, cities.
Eden is constructed by connecting a series of commonplaces and narratives about The End that exist in the collective subconscious and circulate in popular culture. Visually, it takes the strategies and form of dictionaries and encyclopedias, characteristic texts of the project of modernity, with its roots deeply rooted in faith in technique and knowledge of the universe. This world, the world of transparency and technical omnipotence, seems destined for destruction. This discourse, of complete understanding, is now obsolete, that same knowledge and the technique it developed are at the root of the crisis.
The events narrated in this story are both catastrophic, apocalyptic and everyday, many of them (the sea that claims the land, the fire, the desolate streets) could be descriptions of real events. The characters are as fanciful as they are recognizable. Caricatures of discourses and ways of understanding the world.
The events narrated in this story are both catastrophic, apocalyptic and everyday, many of them (the sea that claims the land, the fire, the desolate streets) could be descriptions of real events. The characters are as fanciful as they are recognizable. Caricatures of discourses and ways of understanding the world.
