The Portillón route
Since medieval times the Port de Benasque has been a route for shepherds, smugglers, pilgrims, mountaineers and merchants. That’s why to walk today the Pyrenean paths that join the Hospice de France and the Hospital de Benasque is like walking through a museum. Last week, together with Celeste Reyna and Beatriz Aisia, we reached the Hospice de France via the Port de la Picada and the Pas de l’Escalette to meet the group of walkers from the Grand Tour and cross the Port de Benasque together the next day.
The path from the Hospice to the Portillón de Benasque is a zigzag route optimised by the passage and experience of walkers throughout history: a path so special it has inspired countless engravings. Sharing the climb with the small group of Grand Tour walkers gave it a ceremonial air, fostered by the silence of the mountain and by the presence of the Gavatxa (fog, boira). It was a ceremonial ascent crowned by the majestic view of the Maladeta Massif, once the Portillón was crossed, at 2,444 metres.
At night, once at our destination, the unsettling passage of a platoon of Starlink satellites, dismantling millennia-old constellations, shrank the sky. «What will become of that silence, when we’ll never be alone?», «will there still be room to keep walking in the cracks of reality?»
The route
Materials
Drifts
Projects
The Open Shore (La vora oberta)
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Impossible Territories
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Museu de Camins, Fórmula Mutare
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Sequere (La Entrega II)
Projects
Refugium, refugia
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Lloc, lluny, llar
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La Pell de la Terra
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Within the Skin of the Earth
Series
Envall notebooks
Projects
Lighting the void (Enllumenant el buit)
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Body Ebro (La Entrega III)
Visions
La Mata
Press & Media
Presentation of the Travessa Sequere process (El Born CCM, 2023)
Paratexts
Sequere, a corporealisation of memory (Reyna, 2023)
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Another End. THE REMAINDER — El Born CCM
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Meeting with the authors of the Sequere art project
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Welcome for the «Sequere» project, by the visual artist Marco Noris, in La Seu d’Urgell
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The Sequere project and the Tosquellian walks — Grup Pere Mata
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Sequere, a project on memory and territory
Folios
«Here is paradise»
Criticism
A high mountain flâneur, Marco Noris (Adell, 2020)
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Grand Tour 2020
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Beca Walter Benjamin 2020
Folios
Franco
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Visit to Rivesaltes and «Refugium, refugia» / MuME — 18 January 2020
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«Refugium, refugia» at the MuME — Museu Memorial de l’Exili
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Art and Memory — «On the Border» at the MuME (La Jonquera)
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On the Border - Barcelona Producció 2017
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«It wasn’t the sun» — solo show at Galeria Trama (Barcelona)
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