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VV.AA is an editorial initiative coordinated by Rosa García and Adrián Porcel, born from the vocation to give space to artistic expressions that act as flashes in the penumbra of our time. The project sustains a critical sensitivity toward a present strained by the logics of collapse: fragmented identities, uninhabitable territories, indeterminate futures. We are driven by the desire to compile as many forms of resistance as possible, to make them resonate collectively, seeking to expand their range of effect through interdependence.
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Anatomía de un pretérito / Anatomy of an earlier time
Anatomy of an earlier time (2025) is a publication that reflects on a “distant present” perceived as an archaeological preterite, taking distance from the recognizable to induce us into atemporality and explore the relationship between memory and environment. In it, the everyday becomes ruin, a silent testimony of what once was, a poetic excavation that questions us from the void, showing how our actions in the present will be interpreted as the traces of a civilization condemned by its impact on the planet. In tune with the aesthetics of weird fiction, the Mnemosyne Atlas arouses our interest through its methodology, but unlike Aby Warburg’s praxis—which draws on a knowable imaginary to shape its context—we will do so from the representation of the strange and the unknown to define ours, treating the contents as remnants of our vanished civilization. In this way, the proposals compiled are arranged in dialogue to address how current practices might be seen after collapse, reconstructing, through fictionalized materials, a bridge between the past, the present, and a future that reveals itself as strange, uncertain and fragmented.
Artists: Marina Álvarez, Ricardo Cotanda, Maria Denise Dessimoz, Rosa García, Isabel Gaspar, Tzu-han Hung, Itsaso Iribarren y Germán de la Riva, Aleksei Kazantsev, Henry Lamiña, Chris McTernan, Albert Merino, Joonhong Min, Miriam Navarro Prieto, Adrián Porcel, Anika Spereiter, Áron Tóth-Heyn, Natalia Zambaglioni.
Translation: José Carlos Carrera Carballeda
Design and layout: Rosa García and Adrián Porcel
Cover photograph: Chris McTernan
ISBN: 978-84-09-67400-8
Digital edition (Drive)
Satélite espello
Satélite espello (2024) is an artist’s book by Adrián Porcel. It is the result of an action that proposes the creation of a series of documents emerging from an experimental staging. One of the mediums is constructed from two darkroom cells and the partition between them—which function as pages and spine—onto which two 16mm films are projected. The first contains NASA archive footage showing the Moon and other celestial bodies, and the second is a fogged reel, intervened with text. The other element arises from the development of photosensitive material exposed in front of the projections. The performers' bodies act as visual translators, filtering and mediating the projected content. Given the random nature of the footage used, control over its content is limited; its value lies precisely in the surprise and fascination of the fortuitous discovery.
The proposal unfolds with a vertiginous rhythm, reminiscent of assembly line production logics. The multiple layers of visual perception generated make a complete reading of what is happening in real time impossible. What remains are the impressions on the photosensitive paper: developed traces of a new content. This paper acts as a medium, evoking—rather than replicating—the qualities of the footage through distortion. The aim is to capture something unknown, without guaranteeing its final form, giving rise to a satellite body: impostor, mutant, vaguely resembling the original. Satélite espello focuses on what escapes the eye—the subliminal, the residual. The production process thus becomes a rite, an act that manifests itself in what now resembles a kind of mothership; a strange, almost spectral space, where the publication is not deliberately designed, but rather discovered as it unfolds.
Design and layout: Rosa García and Adrián Porcel