EJERCICIOS DE PERMANENCIA

Both María Elena Pombo and Miguel Braceli understand territory not as a fixed reality, but as a construct in constant transformation, shaped by the relationships, gestures, and forms of participation that move through it. Their practices propose alternative ways of thinking about permanence, emphasizing mobility, cooperation, and the potential for change rather than stability.

Both artists interact with what endures and what changes through different artistic languages: the markings made on the landscape, the traces left by collective action, the tangible relics of far-off pasts, and the fleeting gestures that only exist while they are shared. Through their work, they build spaces of encounter where new forms of belonging might arise and knowledge is formed relationally.

Situated between geological memory and collective experience, these practices explore alternative ways of inhabiting the world, understanding territory as a space open to imagination, reconstruction, and the creation of new possibilities.

In both cases, the landscape ceases to be a passive backdrop and instead becomes a living agent, capable of bringing together bodies, histories, and communities around futures yet to be imagined.