This project starts from a trip, repeated many times, between Barcelona (where I currently live) and Seville (the city where I grew up), through a very specific and politicized infrastructure such as the AVE (Spanish high-speed rail service).

 

I have made a video file of the landscapes that turn up during the 5 hours and a half that this trip lasts. This time goes by in a place, the train car, which as I keep repeating the trip I tend to consider as own and quotidian. It is a place that does not occupy a fixed space; a place that, as it travels through the territory, produces landscape.

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Taking this video file as an starting point, I have been cataloging and editing the recorded landscapes. Given the fact that there is no neutral classification, in this case I decided to select those suspected natural spaces, in which human intervention is not noticeable; those spaces that had not already been defined through their use.

 

The result is a 22-minute video, in which the images are accompanied by a text that intercalates self narrated stories with a bibliographic research about the social construction of landscape, its origin and its engagement with processes such as the construction of collective memory, as a silent language that contributes to naturalize and normalize social relations and territorial order.