With access to new communication technologies, our way of understanding ‘the trip’ has changed. The road, as a journey of discovery and exploration, has made way for the creation of artificial and interactive situations based on the simulacrum.
No Marked Path reflects, through the imagery of the popular culture ‘road movie’, on the present conflict between highway travel, technology and image. Starting from the idea that Frederic Jameson points out of ‘our inability to achieve aesthetic representations of our own current experience’, I’m interested in examining how concepts related to the mark left by man through technology, the screen as a catalyst for experiences, and the interrelation between map and territory are present in our environment and landscape.
Composed of six chapters that include photography, photosculpture, and installation, the work combines materials and media, fiction and reality, strategically displaying visual and material details to confront the device with the image for its questioning.
No Marked Path includes: Borgesian Map (6 expanded images), Territories (48 photographs), Conquests (6 photographs), Horizons (10 photographs), The Myth (3 photographs) and Travels (1 sculpture).
Antonio Guerra (b. 1983, Spain). His practice shows an interdisciplinary approach to the photography medium that reflects on systems of construction in the contemporary landscape, the processes of their transformation, and our own perception of them through images.
Guerra’s work has been exhibited individually in institutions and art centres such as The Domus Artium 2002 (DA2) in Salamanca, Centro Niemeyer in Asturias, Sala Amárica in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the PHotoEspaña festival in Madrid, Centro Leonés de Arte (CLA) in León, and several art galleries. He has also exhibited in the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM) in Ancona, Italy and Thessaloniki, Greece; Talent Latent in Tarragona; Encontros da Imagem in Braga, Portugal; BredaPhoto International Photo Festival, Holland; the Embassy of Spain in Havana, Cuba; and Instituto Cervantes in Madrid. For his work, he has received a MUSAC Artistic Creation Grant, a Pilar Juncosa & Sotheby’s Award from the Miró Mallorca Foundation, a Villalar Foundation grant, a Community of Madrid Visual Art Grant, a VEGAP Grant for Visual Creation, and the Roberto Villagraz grant from EFTI. He has been artist in residence at the Casa de Velázquez Académie de France in Madrid and his work is included in public and private collections.