Sequere, toponyms
2023
“Sequere, toponyms” is a work that weaves together cartography, language, and body. It consists of a paper map that brings together 4,436 place names from the Sequere route and a 2 h 23 m sound piece in which the artist speaks them continuously. The sustained enumeration turns the proper name into a unit of time and effort, making the voice a measure of walking. Vocal exhaustion inscribes the body into the territory and shifts cartography from the visual plane to a performative experience, where memory, journey, and language overlap as a physical record of transit.
Mixed media on paper, 150 × 435 cm. Government of Catalonia, National Collection of Contemporary Art / Morera. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Lleida.
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Mixed media on paper, 150 × 435 cm. Government of Catalonia, National Collection of Contemporary Art / Morera. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Lleida.
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“Sequere, toponyms” (demo), 2023. Original duration: 2 h 23 m 47 s. The video is presented here as a demonstration conceived to accompany the sound piece on the website.
A sound poem composed of almost 4,400 place names from the Sequere route, spoken by the artist. As the voice advances and gradually fades, it becomes a metaphor for the fatigue of walking, the accumulated effort, and the physical and poetic wear of the journey.