Meteorologies, 2013

This work was commissioned for ‘Easterly Winds’  at the spectacular municipal Palacio de la Diputación, Cadiz curated by Magda Bellotti.

Meteorologies is a multi-media work created for three of the set of six vitrines at the Palacio de La Diputación.  The vitrines were originally designed for the drawings of the Spanish botanist and priest José Celestino Mutis (1732-1808) who was born in Cadiz and whose work was honoured with an extensive exhibition in 2008. The vitrines were in storage and used occasionally for displays. It was the proposal to bring them out for the installation.

Meteorologies is small artist’s publication which is a treatment of an unmade film and densely packed in its references and connections.  The multi-media installation expanded this treatment and audio in the publication opening connections and adding printed materials for the vitrines.  The vitrines included books, especially produced prints, album photographs, maps. Quotes from the publication were blown up as wall texts.  The audio CD (21 minutes)  which accompanies the small publication played on headphones.

Meteorologies is part of a cycle of works about Mediterranean geography and the region around Gibraltar and the Straits.  The cycle maps an intersubjective geography filtered through ephemeral materials, music, scripts, cinema, photographs, novels and writing.  Versions of this ongoing cycle have been made for other exhibitions.

Easterly Winds, Palacio de la Diputación, Cadiz, 2019
“…and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens”, The Garrison Library, Gibraltar, 2013
Subjective Maps/Disappearances, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, 2013