Taxonomic Landscapes

Taxonomic Landscapes refers to the representation of landscape in urban artistic practice, especially in the interventions made anonymously on walls. Today in Caracas, the mythology of modernity has been replaced by a nationalist imaginary that emphasizes historical and heroic scenes and a rural mapping with the “typical.” In this practice, the representation of nature is presented as a "native” setting and as signification processes stimulated by the exotic. This image, illustrative of the territory, shares the same concept of artifice, if we think that the vision of the natural has become distant and almost referential, or "mere fiction, a negative utopia," as the philosopher Henri Lefebvre warned when challenging a production-based view on the environment.