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#envhumDefoliando el mundo. Ecocidio, evidencia visual y ‘tierra memoria’
Operaciones
2020Editorial direction, Editorial design
Defoliando el mundo offers a look at the production of contemporary images about one of the most traditional themes in art –that of landscape– while questioning the notion of this genre as one that has been abandoned by artists, recognized as outdated and romantic, and approached for a long time from technical-pragmatic, ahistorical and apolitical approaches through the exhibition and criticism of existing ways of visualizing nature. Such viewing modes involve a look not only at what is shown through the image, but also at its opaque surface. It starts the publication of a series dedicated to #meteorologiaforense, which analyzes the scope of representation techniques and the historical, legal and economic frameworks of what is suspended -and circulates- in the air, between the sky and the earth; in a practical and eminently spatial sense: it examines the art of deploying bodies -in this case, chemicals- in space, the mechanisms that put it into action and the ways in which it is projected, simultaneously exposing the administration of air as a infrastructural technology and the earth –and what is on its surface– as a potential legal subject and a public sign of order. [Translated excerpt] See more↗