"The first time I encountered the blue of the Vernantibus oceanum was in the Mediterranean Sea. Every summer, I swam in the waters of the sea where I grew up. For me stillness is found between the crashing of the waves and the movement of the seaweed, where the slate stone of the Costa Brava breaks with the dark blue of its waves, or where the transparent waters reveal the aquatic life of the Balearic Islands. It is there where the present floods my senses, and I observe, listen or touch. I was submerged, moving between rocks and sand, when I found a small conch shell. I came to the surface, and sat down like an amphibian that lives within and without the water and rested on the rocks; I observed what I had found. I was struck by the intense blue color that contrasted with the pink color of my skin, a blue only comparable to that of the Madrid sky. I couldn't categorize its shape, because although it looked like a shell no bigger than a thumb, it had a fine roughness and almost no relief, as well as strength in its materiality. I carefully looked at it, caressed it and even tasted it as if in doing so I could understand its existence. That encounter became the first of many more. That same summer I found more of these ‘shells’; the Mediterranean lived in those structures that I found among corals, fish and rocks. [...]".
The invention of a plant, its recreation and the production of the necessary documents to validate its false existence are the premises that Eduardo Palomares proposes as the starting point for this project. A strategy that reveals the playful and experimental nature of Blooming Ocean. To achieve this, the artist created multiple elements of great accessibility in aesthetic terms. The work is presented through the means of text, performance, video or photographic documentation, ceramic pieces, drawings, scents and installation. These modifications in form reflect the very nature of the Vernantibus oceanum, the fictitious species that travels through different landscapes, which changes its state during its life cycle.
Eduardo Palomares studierte Performance in der Klasse von Alexandra Pirici. 2024 wurde er zum Diplom mit der Debütantinnenförderung (m/w/d) ausgezeichnet.