Bajo el Olivo Residency, Malaga.

Bajo el Olivo was a collaborative residency with artist-researchers Candice Boyd and Sarah Bennett, organised by Julianna España Keller. Our initial proposal touched on how our sense of feeling connected or disconnected is closely tied to the concept of distance. Following a period of pandemic and lockdown, we aimed to draw together writings and speculative works that we produced individually during the pandemic.

Arriving at the house, Casa Mia, we found ourselves situated at the edge of a terrain that had been devastated by a wildfire tornado two months prior to the residency.

Slowly exploring the mountainside: walking from the edges to the centre of the burnt out landscape, collecting images and burnt fragments, turned attention from distance to temporality. The slow regrowth of the forest; its gradual renewal against the devastation of the wildfires, prompted a reconsideration of the idea of time as a human concept.