The project of the maps, which began in 2018, is a work in progress, with a first exhibition at the beginning of 2020: “Atlas of the Earth after the end of the World, (Edifício Arte Contínua), plaque 1, map 1”. It is also a work in process in an artistic residence at Makeeindhoven in Eindhoven (2020/21). PasseVite exhibits maps 1, 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, maps 2, 3, 4 and 5 and their variants, all folded, and silicone plates 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Lisbon, 12 September/03 October 2020.
Plates
The plates of laminated plywood are the ground where some of the silicone sheets were spread.
The accumulation of traces of plastic and paint creates the first condition of a territory of geological strata that are the positive start of the blades.
Blades
White silicone sheets are an absence because they exist between the negative as a model of the territory and the positive of the later impressions and are the condition of maps or, they are themselves, plans.
However, as tensors, they contain impermanence, or rather, a random amount of possibilities, because they are elastic, fragile and resume, only partially, their previous form. They are becoming, and they are covariants insofar as each change they undergo causes a different result.
Impressions
The impressions create the final maps that trigger a possibility of perception or a commotion.
These maps are a paleontological premonition.
By accepting the concept of Atlas and map as a switch between the observer and the observed, they approach the verbal, letting go of the noun.
Thus, they are not the crystallization of existence, and they are not even a memory, they are the representation of nothing, a sign of the distress of that nothing.
The maps of the Earth, when finished build a substitute entity, a premonition that makes its Atlas.
