“Fingerprints identify us, distinguish us, reveal us, while describing our trail, our path, our wanderings… It seems vital and necessary to pass through this world leaving a positive residue, an essence of our own, an emotional perfume, a particular way of being. Go through this world LEAVING A MARK. Fingerprints, handprints, footprints, heartprints, soulprints… The poet Antonio Machado speaks to us about the unmarked footprints and paths, about the open and shared footprints of our lives, in his remarkable poem: “Walker, they are your footprints / the path and nothing else; / walker, there is no path, the path is made by walking”. Let’s follow his footsteps, from ours.”
“The approximately 600 works received, by post or online, at the Villa de Móstoles Cultural Centre, after the Call launched in October 2022, extraordinarily exemplify the enriching practice and experience of this experimental (in) discipline. Dozens of responses sent by mail artists and experimental artists from around the world, in the form of visual and textual interventions on the “official postcard” of the Call or with freer works, always related to its theme and motto: DEJANDO HUELLA – LEAVING A MARK.”
(From the opening statement for the exhibition by Pepe Murciego, the coordinator of the PERIFERIA IMAGINARIA project, in which the call is framed.)
The exhibition takes place in the Centro Cultural Villa de Móstoles, Plaza de la Cultura, Móstoles, Madrid, and it is open until 19 July.
The photo [large version] shows small sections of the fantastic exhibition and a photo-poem-combination by Gerald Jatzek.
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