two lineations

2024 | 10:46
video installation: double projection of photographic films
produced during a residency with Espacio Vilaseco
sound + 35mm photographs

two lineations is a video installation made of two synchronized photographic films originally produced during a residency with Espacio Vilaseco (Galicia, ES) for the exhibition on becoming amphibian (2024). Weaving 35mm photography and field recordings, the films draw a counter-cartography of the ecologies of Chantada and its surrounding region by directing the attention on overlooked axes and the environments they bridge. The films begin in unison meandering in the Sil Canyon before encountering a dam. From there they split and follow two different paths through the Galician landscape; one lineation made of power lines, the other of flowing waters. A face to face which reveals how these lines originating from the dam form a discreet union between the stork and frog populations.

When shown the films are screened facing each other or side by side.
Below: an excerpt of Diserens’ eponymous book on becoming amphibian in which the idea of two lineations emerges. And photographs documenting how two lineations was presented during Diserens’ exhibition on becoming amphibian (Espacio Vilaseco, ES, 2024).



July 18
sun

Two distinct lineations depart from the dam
Tracing paths of ascent and descent
The first is made of power lines
Crossing over fields, valleys and mountains
Until they reach occupied towers and poles
Crowned by stork nests
A system of aeries
Perched on a network of cables
The second is made of flowing waters
Carving fields, valleys and mountains
Until they reach occupied ponds and quarries
Pregnant with frogspawns
A system of wetlands
Floating on a network of fluids
Two habitats
Teaming with clattering and ribbiting life
Interconnected by diverging webbings
Airborne entanglements
Aqueous labyrinths
Threads marking the landscape
Cradling filaments




produced, recorded, photographed and written by Pablo (Rana) Diserens
during a two-month residency in Galicia with Espacio / Galería Vilaseco
april — july 2023

stork sounds on “two lineations”: Izabela Dłużyk
river sounds on “two lineations”: Ludwig Berger & Pablo Diserens

special thanks to the frogs of Galicia, and to Andrea Franco, Miriam Vilaseco, Lola Fernández Gómez, Beatriz Pérez Pereira, Rosa Salamo Otero, Frederic Griesbaum, Mathieu Bonnafous, Diane Barbé, Mélia Roger, Thom Lucero, Heike Leidiger, Jean-Charles Massera, Francis Gomila, Corinne Diserens, and Madelyn Byrd.