THE LIMIT OF A BURNED PLACE

The limit of a burned place arises from the personal experience of arriving at a burned forest for the first time. This experience confirms that the ecological crisis also manifests itself in the image as a crisis of representation. Within the modern, western context of the binomial separation between humans and nature, in which the latter has been reduced to a flat, idealised, sublime space, where human emotions are projected and resources are exploited, a gap emerges between this imaginary and what is actually happening before us.

The intention of the project is to explore new ways of presenting and experiencing these spaces through the study situated in the burnt terrain of the natural park of Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac, as a reproducible cartographic practice of the territories that we have been pushing away through a series of acts of violence.

It will be tested with exercises of attention that blur, decontextualise and decentralise the human experience. The aim is to play with methodologies and tools of measurement and recording from different formats and fields of knowledge in order to deploy alternative planes, with the aim of proposing multiple dimensions that converge in the same space, from the human to the non-human, passing through fiction, as well as questioning the processes that sustain the narratives that configure us.

The aim is to escape from the operation of reduction and framing where we have found ourselves in contradiction as spectators, to create languages that break with the naturalistic imaginary of modernity, pointing out points off the map that give the world back its enchantment and multiply its surface.

The project is accompanied by Regina de Miguel.

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