Series
Montseny series
A series of vertical landscapes of Montseny built from fragments of a historical map, where the territory is reconfigured as a superimposition of cartographic and pictorial layers.
Wounded territory
This diptych is part of the project “Sequere”, an artistic project about time and memory that begins with a symbolic act: collecting water at the mouth of the Ebro and walking upstream to return it to the source of the Segre, in the French Cerdanya. The journey, carried out between 7 June and 20 July 2022 with the psychoanalyst Celeste Reyna, lasted 44 days, during which the walkers covered 750 km, crossing 5 provinces, 9 counties, 3 regions and 2 nations.
Garzón Maps
These cartographies were made by Marco Noris during his residency at Campo Garzón, Uruguay. The pictorial process began by using the waters of the Garzón stream to capture snapshots of the land on paper and canvas, representing the territory through the action of water and natural processes such as wind, sun and rain.
Envall notebooks
These works are part of the project Enllumenant el buit (Illuminating the Void), which explores the history and repopulation of the village of Envall. They are process-based works: two notebooks conceived as abstract cartographies that document field research.
Museu de Camins, Fórmula Mutare
Commissioned by the Carulla Foundation (Barcelona) for the book La fórmula Mutare.
Sequere Maps
28 maps from the Sequere project journey. Each work corresponds to a day of walking and forms a recording device: the stretch of river, the walked route, the toponyms and field notes are articulated in a processual cartography where time, body and territory are fixed on paper.
Sequere, toponyms
“Sequere, toponyms” is a work that weaves together cartography, language, and body. It consists of a paper map that brings together 4,436 place names from the Sequere route and a 2 h 23 m sound piece in which the artist speaks them continuously. The sustained enumeration turns the proper name into a unit of time and effort, making the voice a measure of walking. Vocal exhaustion inscribes the body into the territory and shifts cartography from the visual plane to a performative experience, where memory, journey, and language overlap as a physical record of transit.
Impossible Territories
Pictorial research on walking, based on the Grand Tour 2020 journey organized by Nau Côclea. Impossible Territories investigates the boundaries between experience, territory and symbolic representation.
Skins
The works, conceived as skins, preserve only the surface imprint of the original matter: vestige, memory, and boundary of the world’s body. In this project, the artist investigates the transition from tangible matter to its dematerialized representation in the digital age.
Cartography of experience
A painterly investigation grounded in the experience of walking, where the lived route is inscribed into the painting through narratives, toponyms, and paths, giving rise to cartographic works.
The route as a sign
The route—that is, the movement through space from one point to another—traces a line whose highest synthesis is a graphic sign that represents not only the path itself, but also all the words that describe it. It is the highest degree of condensation of experience: signs that embody the time and space of the journey, an ideographic dictionary of experience.
Portable landscapes
Series of micro-landscapes painted on fragments of wood recovered from the former Can Ricart industrial complex (mid-19th century), in Barcelona. The works reclaim the site’s material memory, transforming industrial remnants into intimate spaces of contemplation.
Night Maps of the Coma de Burg
Night Maps of the Coma de Burg is a series of paintings made in the Lleida Pyrenees during the second phase of the project La Entrega, acto I, developed by Noris during an artist residency in the village of Farrera.
Memories and Imprints of the Coma de Burg
Works created during Noris’s residency in the Pyrenean village of Farrera. It is the first work in which the artist incorporates the memory of water as an essential element of the creative process.
Cardboards
Series of works made by layering cardboard. In these stratifications, material layers reveal a poetics of fragility, time, and matter that endures.
Border landscapes
In the summer of 2017, Noris walked the 300 km of the Spanish–French border in the province of Girona, along which the main routes of the Republican exile once passed. During the journey, the artist painted one work corresponding to each of the 198 border markers that trace the boundary.
Maremortum
Maremortum is part of the project Refugium, refugia, an artistic research into the idea of refuge and its reverse: exile, flight, the loss of home. The Mediterranean—once a space of exchange and life—has become a territory of border and death: an immense mass grave for migrants searching for a new home. This sea that once offered refuge turns into a tomb: a space suspended between hope and disappearance.
Landscapes of Defeat
A series of paintings that explores landscapes of exile and mass graves from Francoism as territories of denied memory.
The past is now
This body of work takes the former internment camp of Rivesaltes as a starting point to address the historical memory of the Spanish Republican exile. From the site’s ruins, the project examines the architectural and human traces that shape a collective emotional memory in which past and present intertwine.
Caravaggio
This series revisits the luministic and emotional tension of chiaroscuro to reinterpret works by Caravaggio through a contemporary gaze. In these works, the contrast between light and shadow becomes a conceptual structure: blurred figures emerging from darkness condense body, violence, and spirituality within a dense and radical pictorial space.