The Possibilities that Dissapear Before a Landscape

Photo: Claudia Pajewski

" Everything interesting takes place in the dark; there is no doubt about it.
We know nothing of the true story of men."
l.f. céline

In The map and the Territory, the novel by Michel Houellebecq, Jed Martin dedicated In his last artistic period his time to create a series of videos where shows by fast forward how Nature freely devours products of the human intervention and makes them disappear under his green and quiet veil; until drown the map under the territory. 

In Shoah as well, repeated scenes portray the infinite stillness of bucolic landscapes; woods and fields which, few years before were the scene of massive torture and killings: mass graves of a human genocide hidden in a natural and peaceful state - a reality hidden under another reality. Thus, the sequence of layers is able to hide but not to erase, those over which they are built. People hushed up, cities silent, and countries that forget.

The Possibilities That Disappear Before a Landscape is a theater piece to be read and to be observed. The piece is thought as an open book, where the imperceptible world of atmospheres, thoughts and memories are described. An empty stage is presented to the audience, occupied at first, only by a screen on which is projected a fragmented narrative journey across ten European cities. Ten landscapes that head the public towards the darkness and the violent territories of people’s minds. Distinguished and famous personalities are presented, cultural fetish figures as Michel Houellebecq, Pol B. Preciado, Spencer Tunick or Zygmunt Bauman, as well as anonymous people, which share with them the same present time.