This exhibition is a portrait of the state of the landscape of contemporary mountains. It is an exercise in photography, which just like on a route, reviews where the identities of the visible which exist in relation to this mountainous landscape in the Southern Pyrenees come from and where are going to.
We do not actually see the landscape, but rather the consequence of other elements that exist beyond it. The photographs show that something is out there, and then deconstruct it to show us how images put the meaning of these things that have vanished, and others that are still with us, in order. The accumulation of all these processes and stories about the same territory is what enables us to read the traces that still remain in several different ways.
The landscape is in a process of ongoing anthropization, a transition in which the symbolic representation of its elements mutates into other forms of significance which are more closely related to the prevailing thought of the moment. The romantic-scientific vision, in which the context of exploration and confrontation with the unknown depicted mountain landscapes from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, has changed into a concept of landscape as a show of globalizing leisure. It shows the race of territorial marketing, in which “homo-turisticus” comes out in search of the lay balsam provided by nature to cure him of his daily banality. It is a sense that exploits the landscape in its dimension as a show, like a devalued romanticism for the masses, where the landscape even loses its aesthetic category and becomes a business of pretending, a postcard or an amusement park. This trivialization of the landscape asks profound questions about the identity of numerous places; a homogenized territory emerges, linking its geography directly to the production an consumerism dictated by the prevailing Neo-capitalism.