An infinite story
The mountain and the image of the mountain

Ros Boisier traces the imaginary of the Asturian mountain, inherited from 19th century painting, and investigates its drifts and a possible cultural reinterpretation. Lo elevado profundo opens up to speculation on the origins of established landscape archetypes and the analysis of new ways of approaching the Asturian mountains based on contemporaneity and new artistic media. From an interdisciplinary perspective, Boisier investigates the holdings of the Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies Photo Library and appropriates images by Rafael Suárez and José Ramón Lueje to re-signify them together with their photographs, physical mapping graphics and video installations.

Painting paved the way and photography took over. In Lo elevado profundo we go a step further. Ros Boisier questions the established visual codes and what they can communicate, analyses not only the aesthetics but also the use of images and uses photography as a means of experimentation with its multiple possibilities of repetition and superimposition, also including the fragment and error as elements of investigation.

The mountain and the image of the mountain. The image of the image of the mountain. The history of the mountain is an infinite history. Infinite and dual. One is the geological history of folds and folding in continuous fluctuation. Another is the infinite history of its visual representation. Both stories converge in Lo elevado profundo.

Natalia Alonso Arduengo