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Geografías en movimiento

Geografías en movimiento is the result of Eduardo Palomares’ most recent aesthetic proposal, which, equipped with a genuine experimental will, fosters artistic integration, collective creation and multidisciplinary participation in order to promote the development and a mise-en-scène of a plural, multiple and integral experience. These circumstances derive from the spirit stamped by Palomares motivated by a vocation for social inclusion— to the artist residency that has given rise to the exhibition, incorporating workshops of plastic, poetic and sound creation, whose product adds to his own work. But it also encourages the interaction between different media, the blurring of the barriers between languages and the redimension of the relationships between art, craft and design. All this puts the focus —from a deeply poetic and allegorical perspective— on a pressing issue of our time, linked to ecology and the preservation of the environment and natural resources.

 

The conceptual plot of his exhibition revolves around the imaginary representation of the landscape, both terrestrial and marine, through the development of ceramic pieces endowed with a singular organicity, suggesting plantal or coral formations, and whose placement in space implicitly carries a complex network of meanings and contents. These could be related to a symbolic allusion —like the one made by the Flemish baroque painters— to a part of the senses (manifested in the inclusion in his proposals of aromatic, auditive, visual and material stimuli); or in his representation of the four elements —with emphasis on earth and water—, as a way of understanding the world and the interaction between its different components, sustained in the principle of continuous transmutation.

Central ceramic piece

Thus, in a first installation, we appreciate pieces modeled in clay, endowed with the appearance of trunks, bark, plantal totems that, rough in their manufacture, free of glazes, stripped of color and placed on clay soil, recreate a suggestive and abundant terrestrial landscape of material sensuality. The projection of videos on this installation and record the site from where the clay was extracted contribute to the expansion of our perceptive and aesthetic experience of the simulated landscape. While in the next one, we find ceramic volumes defined by a suggestive organic morphology, which evokes the silent existence that animates the marine depths.

It is a proposal which the artist entitled Blooming Ocean based on the fictitious creation of a plant that lives between the sea and the mountains, whose fragile constitution metaphorically highlights the risks of extinction currently suffered by marine ecosystems due to the vertiginous transformations introduced by humans into the climate and geography of our planet (and which are deeply related to devastating phenomena, such as the disappearance of coral reefs in the oceans).

Placed on stretches of salt that suggest a sea bank, the ceramic pieces, which sometimes resemble coral formations, sometimes lichen or algae, offer an overflowing visual spectacle to the imagination, which is amplified by the projection of videos made at the bottom of the sea, and by the scent of a fragrance developed especially for this artistic proposal by the company Givaudan. The integral seduction of the senses becomes the aesthetic experience of a state of reverie, of poetic connection, of a symbolic journey (similar to the way in which German romantic landscape painting understood nature); a state induced in the spectator by their immersion in the dreamlike dimension of water, the symbol par excellence of dissolution, of the transubstantiation of consciousness:To disappear into deep water —writes Gaston Bachelard— or to disappear into a distant horizon, to associate oneself with depth or infinity; such is human destiny, which seeks its image in the destiny of the waters.

 

Adolfo Wilson

Exhibition Geografías en movimiento

by Eduardo Palomares

in the TCB21 spaces in Madrid

From March to May, 2025

CREDIT

Curated by Adolfo Wilson

With the participation of Kailin Sun
Sound Artists: Marli Herrera Muñoz, Cristina Alejandra Gómez and Álvaro Méndez.
Poets: Aitor Alegría, Ángel Díaz de Luz, Inés BeVi, Laura Pascual, (m)Meri, Miguel Ángel Jerez Rodríguez, Rubén Fernández, Laura Morales Palomares, Teresa Da Piedade.
Fundación A LA PAR and the art workshop led by Nuria Arrinbas and the students: Alfonso, Conchi, Ignacio, Diego, Daniel, Gonzalo, Fran y Gema.
fragrance created by Maxence Moutte (Givaudan)

Photography by Sara Mayoral

Texts translated by Martin Gast