LA DERIVA. Un proyecto Erasmus + colaborativo

Abstract

The book “La deriva” is a collaborative artist’s book, which has no authorship of its own, for the benefit of the collective. It deals with a visual and conceptual journey that explores Nature, through the interior of the human soul, as a metaphor for self-search, loss and discovery. In this sense, the creation processes, developed through engraving, converse between contemporary graphics and latent issues in society such as the relationship between man and the planet, generating an artistic dialogue that highlights the biological and botanical aspect, the fragility of the territories, climate change, deforestation, the water crisis and the greenhouse effect.

Attention to the environment is also given with the option of recycling the tetrapak material and using it as a matrix to be engraved with drypoint; in addition, the texts are created with photoengraving processes and printed deliberately without ink to evoke the drift.

The collective artist's book is included in an Erasmus+ project coordinated by professors Marta Aguilar Moreno, from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, and Elena Molena, from the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice. The collaboration between both teachers began in 2016 and in 2024 they thought of a shared Erasmus+ project around the artist's book. This is how it began in Madrid in February and ended in Venice in July 2024.

In this Visual Essay, the images are part of the poetic research of its authors, referring us to records and testimonies of experiences in their own artistic poetics in favor of the community. The argument is built by the images, synthesizing the contents of the creation process in an illustrated and concise way.