Jorge Yeregui at àngels barcelona
Jorge Yeregui’s exhibition “Deshacer, borrar, acticar” (To undo, to erase, to activate) proves that panorama will be political. By way of the lens of the title verbs, the artist explores the naturalization of a stretch of land north of Barcelona. The easternmost level of the Iberian Peninsula, Cap de Creus was dwelling to a Membership Méditerranée resort from 1961 till the early 2000s. It has since been transformed right into a nature protect.
Yeregui follows the method of rewilding with VACÍOS (Deshacer), (Voids [Undo], all works 2018), 4 images of newly vacated spots within the panorama hung above 4 stacks of posters. The variability and fullness of the terrain in these wastelands, as captured within the images, is counterpointed by the pictures within the posters, which present the ground of a dock that had been constructed from the repurposed rubble of the Membership Med. The triptych EXÓTICA, INVASORA (Borrar) (Unique, Invasive [Erase]) depicts withered, nonnative vegetation, visualizing the aggravated extinction of invasive species to be able to wipe all traces of human exercise from the surroundings.
The panorama architects took a mimetic method to reworking the park, mixing in new “native” vegetation and terraforming. Inside the six pigment print diptychs AUTÓCTONA (Activar) (Native [Activate]) and the sixteen particular person images of DESDE, HACIA (Activar) (From, Towards [Activate]), Yeregui paperwork how this stretch of “pure” earth has been constructed by the identical means because the vacationer panorama earlier than it. There may very well be no stronger illustration of what anthropologist Anna Tsing calls “life within the ruins of capitalism.”
— Franz Thalmair
