Dora García
La máquina horizonte, 2000

La máquina horizonte belongs to a series of photographs first presented in Dora García’s 2000 exhibition Va a desaparecer (It Is Going to Disappear) at Galería Juana de Aizpuru in Madrid. Conceived as a diptych, the work allows for different display configurations. The exhibition took its title from a phrase by French photographer Eugène Atget, referring to photography’s ability to capture a condition of light or a situation before it changes. The diptych was inspired by the writings of J. G. Ballard, whose work was profoundly important to García then, and remains so today. Ballard suggests that landscapes do not exist in nature as such, but are produced by human beings as a way of understanding the Earth. The horizon, in this sense, is not something that simply exists: it is something we create. This idea also informed a device conceived by the artist to generate horizons, now held in the collection of the Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporáneo Esapñol in Valladolid.

Text by the Kerenidis Pepe Collection.