Jürgen Partenheimer Senderos de Luz I-IX, II (for Miguel Hernandez), 2000 | Photo: Studio Partenheimer
Paths III continues the journey that began with Paths I and along which progress was made with Paths II. Walking as a personal act of socio-political activism; as collective responsibility in the face of environmental crises, owing to its correspondence with the immediate, the observable, and the perceptible. Walking as a cultural footprint that conditions the gaze and generates landscape and the attainment of sensitivity. Walking as a historical phenomenon that transcends sequences of time in constant contemporaneity. Walking as an exercise of religious intermediation and its destiny. Walking as a work clothing.
From these pathways, Paths III intertwines artists and works of different generations, concerns and interests, to initiate them in the various positions that confronted them with the creative action. In transit, these artists find, in the physical efforts of the journeys, in the relational, random or provoked encounters between individuals, in the complex dynamics of the territory, in the physical and psychological geographies, and in the variable circumstances, that all this represents the foundations for an involvement between their times and their derivations.
Paths III shows performance actions recorded on video, in field notebooks and on maps, important sources of information on the concrete deliberation of artists in their moment of determination. It presents specific installations that are set in the landscapes-frame of reference and in their sonorities. It exhibits studies of implication on the specific zoning systems (urban, suburban and rural areas) that have reconstructed and shaped them and which, thus, have created a new ‘geography of use.’ As well as works that are deeply critical of political impositions, mandatory regulations, borders and the struggle for survival. And the intimate reflections that are measured in the ‘walk of contemplation,’ generating an important part of the evolved human history that is sown from these artistic positions.
Jürgen Partenheimer
Paths III
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
11 November 2022 - 21 May 2023
