- Agrela, Ángeles
- Anleo, Xoán
- Ataíde, Cristina
- Barco, Eduardo
- Berkowitz, Terry
- Bernardes, Marta
- Cano, Jorge
- Del Junco, Juan
- Gili, Jaime
- Gordillo, Luis
- Herrán, Juan Fernando
- Igualador, Alfredo
- Koch, Eva
- Kraviez, Gabriela
- Lizarazo, Luz Ángela
- Mayo, Santiago
- Meseguer, Rosell
- Peláez, Paloma
- Perinat, Eliana
- Quejido, Manolo
- Van de Mheen, Irene
OVNI ARCHIVE
10.06.2010 - 22.07.2010
Rosell Meseguer (Orihuela, España. 1976)
OVNI ARCHIVE
An UFO like a bunker, or a bunker like an UFO
I have been collecting images on espionage, then visiting the fortresses of Rio de Janeiro, guided by historical readings and a handful of books. Among these was Guerre Secrète sous les océans, bought in a Brazilian tallow. The book explains in a journalistic fashion the inventions and revolutions in the world of war and espionage by sea with an international sense. Starting from Peral Submarine to the then recent discoveries of underwater espionage.
The fortresses of Rio were scattered in Guanabara Bay, which the Portuguese believed was the mouth of a river, they arrived there in January, hence the name of the city, the fortresses reminded me of invented cities. The discovery was made at the Copacabana Fort and San Luis Fort, there the bunkers were balloons divided in half, UFO´s from another time and why not?, espionage spaces, giant pinhole cameras to record, to hide objects, giant jellyfish ...
Recent events like the war in Georgia, the poisoning and death of the spy Litvinenko; are making that the media, analysts and politics start talking about a new “Cold War”. This has little to do with the antagonism between capitalism and communism; it actually lives in the context of criticism to the capitalist system, its financial disaster and the career to gain control of high tech and the debates on the use of nuclear energy. All these occurs at the same time as many Latin-Americans countries, that were once refuge to former European and North American spies, establish ex-sovietic administration and development programs.
This project is above all, a current view of the history of the defensive concept related to espionage. There´s a double dialogue: the construction of submarines on the Spanish base of Cartagena, and the Mediterranean link with the Atlantic by European influence (Portugal and Spain) with the bunkers on the Brazilian coast. The project is a file of historical and cartographic documents, with the same idea of double dialogue: Europe and America, early inventions and current developments. Rosell Meseguer
