"On the art of wandering. Perhaps remembering it will help us understand why porosity and navigation metaphorically coincide in the emancipatory potential that Modernity hides. “The flâneur, as a walker, as a metropolitan wanderer, is the figure capable of appreciating that promise hidden. Due to its own idiosyncrasy, the pedestrian gets lost in the city to discover the false promises that propel modern civilization that remain hidden behind the ghostly metropolitan façade. (...) Thus, the walk becomes the paradigm of an act "capable of reinventing discontinuity at the very heart of uniformity; it is an act capable of discovering alterity at the very heart of homogeneity. The flâneur intuits passages because he intuits heterogeneity. (p. 119)"
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Walking through the streets reveals to me something of that being, one that I do not know and that I want to somehow also recognize as a being, still unknown to me. I don't know exactly why it is that person and not another who captures my attention. I am also caught by the fact of “coinciding” in that exact latitude and in that exact time space, with the person involved. A fleeting and ephemeral look that freezes when captured on the canvas. From then on, he built their own reality for them. Integrated and disintegrated at the same time.
The disintegration of matter makes it difficult to distinguish which group they belong to. Without further pretensions of denunciation, there are none, in this work I want to show street scenes, without differentiating in any verbal explanation, which world the captured people come from, tourists, inhabitants, immigrants, evacuees. They are there at those coordinates and at that time, and they walk, eat, rest, move, carry packages or suitcases, families, friends, couples or alone, they are there at that moment and captured my attention, whether they come from the street or from a image from newsreels or a rural road, shopping center, or border, they are there. In those coordinates and in that instant of time.
