Anna Talens & Mar Guerrero. Territories in transit / Solo Duo: Between the Lighthouse and the Abyss
- Fri, Sep 18
- Es Baluard — Espacio C
- Plaça Porta de Santa Catalina, 10, Palma
“Territories in Transit” is a coproduction between IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern and Es Baluard Museu. Jointly conceived as an exhibition project for both art centres, its aim is to set up a dialogue between geographical and cultural contexts related to the Mediterranean region. For the first time ever, the work of Anna Talens (Valencia, 1978) and Mar Guerrero (Mallorca, 1991) is presented in a duo exhibition, their practices converging to reflect on the sea as a space of transit, memory and transformation. This exhibition invites us to think of the sea not as a boundary, but as a territory: a living, ever-changing body where cartography dissolves and borders are defined not by fixed lines, but by currents, tides and temporal rhythms. Far from a mere liquid horizon, the sea appears as an unstable geography – a space that cannot be walked upon, yet sustains the movement of bodies, memories and materials. In this inversion of perspective, the liquid becomes the norm and the solid the exception. Blue is no longer a background, but a structure; the terrestrial ceases to occupy the centre. From this logic, the sea stops being landscape or romantic metaphor and becomes a contemp…