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ARGONAUTS SEPARATED LAND

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Argonauts

Man Boat Men Men in a boat.

Quest Journey Encounter Men in a boat on a quest; a journey for an encounter.

Synthesize in a helmet all the symbolic charge of a quest.

The will, the persistence and the work - beginning, middle and conclusion.

Head condensed with all the matter that human gest is made of; iron skull; bone helmet; elaborate stone.

A place where the world comes in, where the seas and the mountains flow out, conscience and sense.

A place where you look, a place where you see.

FG 2013

Separated Land The history of conquest and possession of territories is the history of life and with it, of the human species.

Since the most remote consciousness of the notion of place – occupied space, the shapes of which are determined by either natural or provoked circumstances – and beyond its biological determinants, the need to be bonded to the surroundings, to be part of them, to adapt them and dominate them has been developing in the human mind in all of its rational and sensitive manifestations.

For this emerging being, intelligent and determined though, this process, often impetuous, implies the constant marking of space and signalling of limits/borders, assuming that as a task of most vital importance, both practically and symbolically.

It is by starting from the symbolic construction of the notions of space and place, of the significance of “inside/belonging to” and “outside/not belonging to”, of what is contained and what is container, that are somehow established the notions of security and shelter, with all the consequences that this apprehension trigger on the environment itself and on the remaining beings who live in it and are part of it.

The dominating “presence” as a counterpoint to the “absence” through domination, the other as a goal to achieve by taking him, incorporating him or offsetting him, or the other as our measure, the gauge of our real proportions, as the ending or the boundary line to our appropriative reach What in us, individuals, starts with a genetic impulse, turns, collectively, into phenomenons of territorial identity, concepts of space/nation, belonging, group, bonding.

Defining man, was, is and will be by what he does with his permanent use of a complex network of languages and codes, electing colours, materials, graphics and objects that underline his markings, emphasizing the similarities and denouncing the differences, in a raw and uncontrollable attitude of selfappropriation of values and rights.

It is a vibrant and disturbing question that remains unsolved in any of us, either in our confined personal dimension or in the broadest collective dimension; Separated Land from here I depart, delicately crossing the outer places, encountering the other.

FG 2014

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