Drawing on a listening and interpretation of the Sala d’Art Jove Creació 2022 projects, Cartografies del foc is organised around two symbols, two elements: maps and fire.

Sala d’Art Jove functions as a map of the concerns and miseries of the region’s young people. Latent malaise is expressed in a seemingly isolated yet structurally connected manner. The projects analyse and demonstrate the violence of the system in which we live: a world asphyxiated by capital. They are all different flames, burning in the same fire.

The artist is a cartographer. A map is a means of comprehending reality, but it is always partial and powerless and sometimes beautiful. Maps are glasses: they can alter the viewer’s gaze. Art alters the way they are perceived and, therefore, the action; this is their potential for social transformation.

Just as it is a cartographer’s duty to include and exclude elements from reality in order to help the receiver understand the land, the artists are aware of the what, the why, and the ethical implications of their work.

This second exhibition presents a set of projects born from analysis, in which the observed object is the central element, transcending the subject; starting from a materialist, at times ironic approach, they propose new worlds, new possibilities, new metaphysics. In this set of pieces, the work is darkness, and in these shadows, the viewer’s gaze lights up to illuminate it. These are pieces that confront the territory more than their representation, destroying it and getting closer to the latter. They are maps of everything that can happen.