Within the broader, more delocalized scope of The bee who forgot the honey, Línies de fuga offers a reflection focused on the historical-political and social dimension of the notion of landscape, understood in this case as a collective imagination, an element that is displayed as both constructing us and being constructed by us as a society and citizens. It is a collective exhibition in which a number of artists elaborate on contemporary issues related to ecology, transhumanism or the value of the image.
Like a vanishing line, ever visible but unattainable – ideal but impossible -, in this case, the landscape is presented as something we destroy but must protect, something we seek but cannot find, an obstacle that limits us but that we can sometimes unwittingly surpass. This display approches the way in which men address landscapes or how they become the reflection of an ideology, a collective imagination or a sphere of intimacy.
Mario Santamaría works across a wide range of media, frequently using photography, video, performance, websites and online interventions. In recent years his work focuses on tactics to embody distribution protocols, performing actions such as physically travelling to his website by repeating the data path; going for beers around the city as a Google algorithm or founding a tour operator based on the Internet physical infrastructure. His work has been shown among others in: ZKM Karlsruhe, WKV Stuttgart, MACBA Barcelona, CENART Mexico, Arebyte London, Les Rencontres d’Arles and C/O Berlin.
Last updated: 11th November, 2022
Artists: Guido van der Werve, Taus Makhacheva, Paulo Arraiano, Serafín Álvarez, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Marcin Liminowicz, Justin Barton & Mark Fisher, Saïd Afifi, Jon Rafman, Ariane Loze, Mit Borràs