Metamorphosis of an exact world

For centuries, the representations have gone through various codes that have advanced or changed with respect to the times. The representation of the terrain, for example, has seen how the mountains become lowered profiles of the same, represented in a bird's eye view, in delimited points, structural lines that distinguish between the summit and the valley, the maximum slopes until reaching the almost universal level curve. Gradually a greater effort of cartographic reinterpretation appeared: the terrain should not only instruct but passively evoke.

This is precisely where the idea of ​​questioning cartographic representation systems was born, through the transformation, decontextualization or manipulation of real or fictitious maps. In a current scenario, where maps serve more to say where we are than to locate us, Wilmer Leonardo Useche unleashes all possible cartographic tools and, through meticulous research, has created pieces that pursue not only a spatial search, but also a temporal one. .

This is a journey through apparent timelessness and immobility. It is a journey through imaginary territories, apparently unconnected, where the cartographic elements arise by intuition. Each one of these maps is a fraction of an imagined world but created under a reasoned process, and at the same time, accompanied by a logbook that spontaneously and almost coincidentally follows the route that the viewer wants to take.

Brahim, Alex (curator). Useche, Wilmer (artist).

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Curaduría. Colombia: BIENALSUR - 16 Salones Regionales de Artistas. 2017 - 2019.