El mar inmenso, el inmenso mar
"El mar inmenso, el inmenso mar" 2024
Multimedia installation composed of a projected video, pencil lines on the wall, a GIF displayed on a monitor,
a large-scale scroll drawing, and a full-color vertical video. Variable dimensions.
El mar inmenso, el inmenso mar, 2024
El mar inmenso, el inmenso mar is a multimedia project that intertwines the fluidity of memory with the present moment, exploring the passage of time through the movement of the sea and visual transitions from monochrome to color. Structured as a spatial and poetic journey, the installation unfolds through projected video, graphite wall drawings, animated GIFs, scroll drawings, and moving image, transforming the exhibition space into an immersive landscape of disappearance, memory, and emotional drift.
The installation begins with a projected video inspired by an early nineteenth-century Japanese gouache seascape. As the camera slowly traverses the waves, a poem unfolds line by line, evoking the rhythm and instability of the ocean. Some verses seem to escape from the projection itself, extending onto the walls as graphite lines that physically guide viewers through the space. Language becomes drawing, and drawing becomes movement.
Following these traces, viewers encounter Sea GIF, an endless looping animation created from graphite drawings and letterpress printing on cotton paper. Suspended between analog mark-making and digital repetition, the movement of the sea appears trapped within a perpetual cycle, momentarily suspending time itself. Further along, a large-scale scroll drawing reinforces the materiality of memory and the weight of accumulated gestures, extending the poem into physical space.
The installation culminates with Los Aparecidos, a full-color video where human figures emerge and disappear along the shoreline like fleeting apparitions carried by the waves. The sea becomes both threshold and archive: a place where presence and absence continuously oscillate.
Throughout El mar inmenso, el inmenso mar, the ocean operates as a metaphor for memory—vast, unstable, cyclical, and impossible to fully contain. Each element within the installation contributes to a visual narrative about belonging, disappearance, and transformation, inviting viewers to contemplate what remains and what dissolves within the immense sea of time.
Technical Setup and Production: Rafael Núñez
