Immersions in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria analyses landscape through the elements of which it is composed. How they interact determines the diversity of the resulting landscape. Immersions needs silence in order to listen to the sound emitted by the actions that take place on a territory: projects that cause it to evolve in consonance with its context. Immersions is directly related to the ability to understand our imaginary order (Country) in cultural terms and to use abstraction as a mechanism to enable us to operate in the territory, infiltrating the ambiguous spheres of production and consumption.

The exhibition aims to be an indisciplinary laboratory equipped with various measuring devices capable of investigating the complexity of the system in depth: a laboratory which condenses the landscape and in which its structures can be analysed, both in terms of basic molecular elements, or microstructures, and territorial macrostructures. The role of structures can help us to understand the natural environment, the workings of complex systems, and everything around us.

Immersions embraces all observable scales, from abstract notions to more global levels or territorial dimensions. In this way it manages to establish different approaches to the internal logic and production strategies of landscape: a complex mechanism whose development depends on numerous factors and in which a variety of facts are involved. The exhibition establishes manifold approaches to various disciplinary fields and also reveals the connections with painting and landscape that exist in modern abstract art: a whole series of elements that aim to uncover the complexity of territory and its manifestation in landscape.

Through photographs, paintings, projections, installations and architectural and landscape projects we seek to reveal a number of different approaches that arise from analysing landscape as an object and as a process: a task which combines elements from architecture, geography and art... in a multidisciplinary, hybrid exploration, with the capacity to incorporate various different scenarios. Bubbles and constellations; abstraction; diagrams, meshes, networks and systems; structures; infrastructures; superstructures; insular geostructures (Macaronesia); island landscapes: all these provide us with a framework to analyse and reflect on the elements that form the mosaic of relationships which articulates and constitutes our environment, taking the production of the landscape and its progressive modification over time as our point of reference. An immersion implies entering a different setting, a change of medium, crossing a bridge, traversing membranes as delicate as bubbles, but also moving through the structures, infrastructures and superstructures of a complex system — landscape. The air trapped in a thin elastic layer of water and soap speaks to us of the fragility of metamorphosis, of the progress of a journey which also reveals the hidden, invisible relationships of a territory that is constantly being regenerated. It therefore seems appropriate to study it in depth, since this shows us the dimensions of the loads which the territory bears.