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Good evening.
"Pedro Infinito Accesorios Territoriales"
was born of the need to approach the material world
from different scales
to come down to earth while looking at the stars.
Land as the framework for a territorial landscape
of the Canary Islands
which gives rise to the "Tropic" line.
Stars as a set of stellar systems
and their scientific measurement and history.
Upon observing it, we get the second line
"From the planetarium."
The project is inspired by Pedro Infinito,
the name, the place, and also Galdós' character.
This astrologer, mathematician and would-be poet,
according to Galdós,
appears in the play "Celia in Hell"
obsessed with going from the infinite to the finite
and extracting the infinite from the finite.
This project is about looking for the identity of a place,
based on its nature, in order to construct a discourse
linking it to the inherently constructive nature
of the territory it occupies.
A nature without artifice
and nature that is always inhabited.
In "Building Dwelling Thinking", Heidegger says:
"We attain to dwelling, so it seems, only by means of building."
"The latter, building, has the former, dwelling, as its goal."
This materiality is not just scientific,
it also entails relationships between different materials
when they encounter each other, travelling through a particular place
where popular arquitecture
in its anisotropy, plays a dominant role.
It's about crossing that thin line between traveler and naturalist,
classifying each and every corner.
In the letters of John Berger and James Elkins
they say:
"Drawing begins with an interrogation"
"of appearances."
"Before it evolved to become an investigation"
"of the visible,"
"drawing was a way of addressing the absent"
"of making the absent appear."
Pedro Infinito draws his own catalog of corners
emphasizing playing with scale
giving them another dimension
decontextualizing and isolating them in their geometric purity.
Geometry,
which structures the laws of scientific discourse,
will be a constant in its development.
In the words of Miró Mainou:
"Nature is the end and the beginning of all things."
In the material sense, the life of objects
starts from the moment construction begins.
They include readings linked to recycling for other uses,
parallel industrial materials.
By reutilizing elements,
we build relationships with what they were and are now.
We're interested in the invisible writing behind that overall vision.
We're interested in what remains at a particular time.
In Species of Spaces, Georges Perec
talks about time and space,
space and time,
two categories that explain all of reality,
two coordinates that intersect to express something undefined
that did not exist before.
Nature and place.
In this sense, every corner
is a transposition of a coordinate defined at a specific time.
The catalog of coordinates
allows us to identify the original law
on which to rebuild the matrix, recognizing the pattern.
Based on substitutions and additions,
families are generated.
The search for different materials is as infinite
as the places visited.
What remains will be part of our imaginary.
"Planetarium" looks at the planets and studies their densities,
matter and sizes,
building orbits as imaginary corners.
Three materials, three planets.
There is a transfer of densities and matter
but not in their location,
as the orbits built
are recognizable through their own ratios.
Three planets orbit
loaded with a planetary identity
in an illusionary around a center of common masses.
It's important that these pieces are made
by hand in limited editions.
But not limited so as to make them exclusive,
but rather because of the tempo
set by recycling forgotten and sleeping objects.
In this sense, every find
implies a certain number of territorial accessories.
It can even become a flashpoint for creating a new line
or a different catalog.
We are part of the slow movement
in which each action is carried out at its own tempo.
From the territorial accessories,
to their packaging.
It is all made by hand, humanizing each piece
and allowing its discourse to arrive more directly
at its final destination:
Pedro's friends.