The Excitation of Landscape: Soft Rock is an ongoing artistic research project developed with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Culture through the Tabacalera Creation Grants.
The project focuses on the mountain as a place of attention, imagination, and relationship. It begins from a desire to approach the mountain both physically and from a distance: to walk among its rocks, vegetation, minerals, and living beings, while also contemplating its contours, colours, textures, and scales from afar.
Rather than understanding landscape as a representation of nature, the research approaches it as a relationship that emerges between a body and a territory. The mountain appears not as an object to be described, but as something that continually exceeds our capacity to grasp it. Its weight, its solidity, its geological time, and its immense scale invite forms of observation that oscillate between intimacy and inaccessibility.
Throughout the research, drawing, singing, walking, collecting, filming, and writing have become ways of thinking with the mountain. These practices do not seek to explain the landscape, but to establish different forms of encounter with it.
From this process, several interconnected lines of work have emerged: The Contours, a series of drawings, scores, and songs derived from mountain silhouettes; The Double Contemplation, a video research project exploring landscape through mediated forms of looking; The Mountain Conference, an expanded lecture that brings fragments of the mountain into the theatrical space; and a series of site-specific performances developed directly within mountainous environments.
Rather than a single artwork, The Excitation of Landscape: Soft Rock functions as a constellation of practices through which the mountain continues to generate questions, images, sounds, and forms of attention.
