SALIM SANTA LUCIA

In the group exhibition As the Sharp Narrative Ends, a Revealing Map Emerges (PART 2) at Gallery Chosun, Seoul, in 2024, Santa Lucia collaborated with Antonin Hako to present Motorama 360. The documentary records various landscapes through painting, photography, text, and sound recordings, taking landscape not merely as a scene that depicts a place in which humans live or a part of nature, but also an image that reveals the worldview.

Santa Lucia focuses on automobiles, often seen on the streets in urban landscapes. The artist’s ‘Beauregard’ series in As the Sharp Narrative ends... captures cars that wander through the city like ‘ghosts’. In the works of photography, Santa Lucia captures an object completely concealed with a cover. The more obscured these objects are, the more they assert their presence. A painting performance was conducted on these covered objects, and the traces were captured through photography. These traces do not represent mere remnants or marks left by the objects, but rather the trajectory of pursuit—the path followed by the object. In this way, Santa Lucia investigates the traces left by cities and the pathways they form, exploring how the urban landscape is shaped and marked by its movement and history.

Gallery Chosun