The ocean's tidal patterns arrive through undulations of white noise in a collision of magnetic bursts, as the horizon's fractal reflection melts in this place, where the thin liminal zone between atmosphere and water mass is pulverized by a steam of particles in a transitional state of levitation. As the vertiginous immobility of this island's galactic race elicits a sense of restlessness and bewilderment, we know that all of its components, both visible and intangible, are accelerating in the heavens at a synchronized, molecularly interwoven speed. Birds, molecules, stones, plastic debris and flora - each has their own singular inner tempo, externally attuned to the geosynchronous cadence of this planet's cosmic score.
As sweaty coastal landscapes morph into labyrinths of lianas and carnivorous plants in the lush tropical regions, changing winds reproduce refracted pulsations on one's skin, merging the synaptic wonders of our bodies with the surroundings. We drift through swampy mangroves and jungle terrains, arriving at volcanic formations where the world's blood gushes out in a copious flow. Condensing minerals and metals pour out of the rifts of geomorphic instability. The cavernous secrets of this planet open up towards the forsaken plateaus where desert storms are born, and tundras lost in immemorial fog take shape. Spaces where millennial microorganisms reign, and bacteria dictate the slow molecular changes in the biosphere's amalgamated layers.
The free expanse of this natural journey is intersected by the heightened geometry of designed superstructures. There are signs of previous inhabitation by various civilizations here, traces of infrastructure that can be spotted in the mazes along our erratic path. These living fossils are undecipherable, although they suggest diverse cultural configurations and societal orders that our imagination might perhaps reconstruct. The space is pounding with the density of the fluid, wondrous climates, whose molecular richness expands the outreach of our peripheral consciousness, the noosphere.
A project by
Serafín Álvarez
In collaboration with
Basetis
and
Carlos Fdz. Rovira
With the support of
Generaciones 2018 - Fundación Montemadrid
Website's text by
Margarida Mendes
(Excerpt from Generación 2018 exhibition's catalogue)
Contact: mail (at) serafinalvarez (dot) net
Serafín Álvarez, 2018
