Laboratory of coordinates
“When the air is homogeneous and almost rigid and the things it surrounds are not intermingled, the landscape is not a state of soul but a coordinate system.”
Jorge Cuesta
Considering a new project is like walking through an unknown territory, you trace a course on an abstract map in which you configure a network of emotions, images and footprints, but at the same time you sketch possible routes to travel. Perhaps if you walk without a compass, getting carried away by the luminous points of certain beacons, you may be able to correctly align all the outlined points to perhaps not and only imprints will remain on a more complex map.
The history of cartography is similar to walking through an unknown territory; at each step the lines of the territory through which you travel are laid out, this way an image of the geography traversed and in a certain sense of the time lived is created.
Laboratory of coordinates is a compilation of places traveled in time and mentally wandered spaces, memories of itineraries toured and recognized, imprints of memories. Possibly it is only a beginning, thus I define it as a laboratory where I try to sort the coordinates of the past and the present.
During this journey, some pieces are imaginary itineraries, paths over cities that the unconscious has created with no pretense but to wander mentally.
Xavier Monsalvatje
