To where you came from:
A project on the concept of unjust enrichment and natural forms of poetic revenge from Santiago Morilla
«I like interventions that can only be seen from above. And from there working on the whole idea of spontaneous constructions, coded messages and punk response drawings mainly in a rural environment.
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"In rem verso" at José Robles Art Gallery, Madrid.
A project on the concept of unjust enrichment and natural forms of poetic revenge from Santiago Morilla
«I like interventions that can only be seen from above. And from there working on the whole idea of spontaneous constructions, coded messages and punk response drawings mainly in a rural environment.
There’s a legal statute, a concept in
Roman law that to my mind connects aesthetically with the idea I’m talking about, and it’s
the “action of reimbursement” or ACTIO IN REM VERSO. We’re talking about an action of
reimbursement after a legal but unjust enrichment… (silence) with property, but also with land, or
with land speculation, or with natural resources, because who does the countryside belong to? The
ACTIO IN REM VERSO is intended to reimburse this impoverishment in certain cases of
illicit net enrichment.
When you do an intervention on the
ground thinking about how it’ll be reflected on a map or from the
air, you’ve got three views of the work… four. They’re three
layers that overlap in a fourth layer of understanding. I mean, first
you have the normal view, deformed and incomplete, kind of at ground
level; second you have the aerial view, colder and more objective,
that you can see from a light aircraft, balloon, etc… third you
have the mediated view… And lastly the documentary view of the
stop-motion video, overlapping all the layers within the timeline.
That way it creates a view of what happened there that’s always
incomplete…»
Eduardo
Hurtado. September (2012)
"In rem verso" at José Robles Art Gallery, Madrid.