How to Draw a Line on a Passport

This project takes as a point of departure the image that appears on the first page of the Spanish passport, an etching that represents the ships and the route of Christopher Columbus’ first expedition to the Americas. With a passport opened on this page, a series of interventions were made during the last year of the passport´s validity. These actions took place on the coast of Venice, Ibiza and Lisbon and tried to match the level of the sea with the line of the horizon that appears in the image of the passport, as it can be seen in the videos. An almost imperceptible watermark is stamped on the document which we depend on to travel freely, although this kind of freedom depends on the origin of the beholder. The image of colonization is printed on our passport. IDA