The exhibition presents the results of an audiovisual experiment that emerged within the framework of an artistic residency-laboratory with the artist Rubén Martín de Lucas, held in the Granada Geopark in May 2026.

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The works take the myth of Sisyphus as their point of departure, understood as a contemporary metaphor for a society immersed in a world of irrelevant repetitions, an unstoppable succession of events, and an unwavering order of production and optimization. This reading of the myth takes shape through a collective working process that begins with the presentation of a situation and unfolds through a largely unexpected journey across the Granada Highlands.

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The group of artists works from an a/r/tographic perspective, which provides a framework sensitive to those aspects that emerge within intermediate and liminal spaces, as well as a working approach grounded in narrative exploration. Working a/r/tographically means accepting that the situation is not a closed point of departure, but rather a driving force capable of generating conditions, shifts, and relationships. It also entails recognizing the unforeseen as a possible pathway through which processes of learning and understanding can unfold. At the same time, it means understanding narratives as processes through which experience is elaborated and as ways of accessing understanding.

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Although all the works begin from the same situation and share the same approach to narrative, each responds through the particular evocation that this situation generates in its authors. Within this framework, each work operates as a splitting or unfolding toward the paradox of this contemporary Sisyphus, rooted both in the prior positions and experiences of each creator and in the interferences and dislocations that occur when the individual becomes part of a collective that lives and works together. Each of the works in this exhibition forms part of a reticular mechanism, a network without beginning or end and without hierarchical structure. The works are neither successive nor parallel episodes, because a/r/tographic narration and conceptualization inhabit the instability of the interstices.

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The works that make up this exhibition embody a process inhabited by referential narratives, iconographic interferences, filmic conflicts, the construction of reliquaries, and an attention to entomology. At the same time, they represent a way of conducting processes of inquiry and learning. In a society governed by what is precise, planned, and measurable-objectifiable, a/r/tography advocates a way of understanding that cannot be confined to fixed categories and is not sustained by predetermined and rigid goals. Creating a/r/tographically means unfolding the narrative in order to open it, fold it, expand it, or compress it, with the aim of discovering new territories for understanding; but it also means opening oneself to the unexpected, the unanticipated, the intuitive, and the experiential as possible elements in the search for meaning. Rather than a closed exhibition, Sisyphus. C/a/r/tographic Unfoldings: Fictions, Narratives, and Journeys through the Landscape presents itself as a collective and self-referential essay in which the landscape ceases to be a mere setting and becomes the very core of the narrative.