Timeless city

Timeless city establishes a relationship in time and space through the combination of texts and images of marginal territories flooded as a result of human intervention. These abandoned places were altered by man and wrested from nature — “hot spots of a land that has forgotten time”, as Smithson would say — and have proliferated in recent years as a result of the kind of capitalist orgy we have lived through. The result is a relationship that is absurd, tragic and poetic at once. They remind us that we should have paid more attention to some of the Situationist proposals of the Programme élémentaire du bureau d’urbanisme unitaire (1961) by Attila Kotányi and Raoul Vaneigem, or of the Formulary for a New Urbanism (1958) by Gilles Ivain, whose texts accompany some of these images. A proposal far removed from orthodox postcards, from easy and conformist discourse and from tourist routes, set in territories that emerge like ghosts of an unfinished past heralding a burdened and uncertain future.

— Carlos Suárez, 2015