En la memoria del agua viven las piedras

In the Memory of Water, Stones Live is a publication that adopts a research approach situated within the natural environment to offer a visual and sensory critique of the voracious advance of late capitalism upon the natural landscape.

How can we confront the devastation of the land from a place of awareness? This question seems to contain more unknowns than answers, questions that arise amidst the crisis and the chasm that opens up before the apparent impossibility of conceiving a viable and coherent future. It is an unavoidable question, intrinsically linked to any debate about modes of production and ways of life.

Faced with this situation, one path that, although improbable, could offer a way forward seems to be that of retreating, or at least, of looking back. A search in the past to interrogate the present, our ways of life, and our existence. To pause before history and shift our perspective, to situate ourselves with the awareness that the place we inhabit is in no way exclusively ours, nor does it belong to us.

It is in this context that Víctor Salgado, as an artist and researcher of the territory he inhabits, proposes to shift the focus of interest, directing it toward the landscape that has been present throughout the devastation and that, consequently, shelters all the non-human life that resides there and resists.

Salgado manages to position himself as one among other beings by conceiving his visual research, "In the Memory of Water Live the Stones." A fundamentally critical and sensory journey that seeks to displace the human from the center of attention to make room for the multiplicity of forms and lives existing in the landscape, reminding us that we are not alone and that the territory is not our property in the face of an advance that seems unstoppable.

Finally, a latent sound makes itself present, situating you and reminding you that this place you have visited possesses life, impetus, and resistance. A place that existed before us, coexists with us, and will continue to exist after us.