Peinar la realidad a contrapelo: La pintura como mapa y reflejo de una época

Abstract

At present, we can understand maps as a result of multiple information layers about places. Today, the new media are capable of dimensioning, registering and locating practically every piece of ground of our planet. However, the need to map emotional territories about our subjective experiences in the landscape is motivating the creation of new cartographic proposals though art. Walter Benjamin pointed out that art is capable of “combing history against the grain”. In our historical context, characterized by the use of topographic measurement and identification tools, it becomes essential to allow discontinuous things to appear and claiming transversal tools with which to understand our world, question it, complement it and even escape from it.