persecución

PERSECUTION is a procedural project involving music, video, photography, drawings and texts that will finally take shape in the form of a book. It has been created through daily activity over several years. This has involved ongoing exercises of deconstruction (and/or destruction) of references. On the one hand, the model itself is directly reused, and, on the other hand, variations are made on a continuous basis.

In fact, it draws on some aspects of Godard’s film Weekend. It is another tormented journey by another bourgeois couple (the same person), who want to escape the moral misery of their daily lives and find a (terminal) paradise. The car functions as a metaphorical central thread, the means of salvation and at the same time the (symbolic) cause of the problem (collapse). The beginning and end of the West. Capitalism.

PERSECUTION is a failed narrative created with frozen drawings and dead dialogues. Using chance and chaos to give order to a story of unfinished sequences. The characters – absent – respond with set phrases and contradict themselves. They show their thoughts, fears, dreams, ideas, etc. They do nothing but celebrate the absurd.

Questions appear in an obsessive way, such as: what is conventional? How can it be identified, annihilated, and finally recovered?
The book is a journey towards drawing itself. From the figurative to the abstract, from the line to the stain, from the photographic to the graphic.

A road comic in which various characters escape from the capitalist city to wild nature, from conventions to pure sensation, from references to abstraction. An initiatory journey that discovers freedom or disillusionment. Impossible escape of the creative mind facing the limits of the system.
Features: 132 pages, black, 19,5×27,4×1,7 cms, hardback, thread-stitched, 563gr.
Language: Spanish
1st edition: November 2019
ISBN: 978-84-121045-0-9
Edition: Belleza Infinita