History of Two Cities

Produced for the exhibition Atopía (Atopy) (CCCB, Barcelona, ​​2010), History of Two Cities is a video essay on the extraterritoriality of Western Sahara, the ancient – until 1975 – Spanish Sahara, a poem talks about an estranged culture (and missed culture) but also, and much, about expatriate … one alter- geographical map sketched from the particular lives of some individuals whose daily life has become an exceptional routine, where the rule is an emergency eroded by the day, in the context of globalization, in a situation conceived from temporality but suspected to be permanent builds a transnationality, being without a performative identities, which are forced to be built beyond their original stories – although these are very present and often under intense mythologizing, idealization but also demonization, in an unstable and continuous negotiation with an ever-changing situation in a society also under construction because, among other things, its presence. A necessarily perishable portrait, this suspension uses its own and other recordings to highlight the recurring fact of being described by others, imagined by others (film, fiction, documentaries, by “authors” but also Youtube, which are public selfrepresentationsthat were hardly imaginable until recently). The fragment here is the basic unit: a polyphony (a cacophony?) that does not ignore the interrelationship of macro / micro narrative as the only acceptable option to the obligation not only to doubt the possibility of no longer any “realism” but reality itself.