“Transhumance” is a video installation, representing a flock of sheep in a desolate, barren land. A man guides them slowly through the valleys, or perhaps the sheep guide him. Carefully hidden, the artist observes the scene from a distance. Like a hunter, silent, following the transhumance of this group of animals and a man unaware of the camera’s presence.

The intervals are dictated by the careful search for fragments of vegetation. Every animal inspects the fragments of soil for every single trace of nourishment. The shepherd observes, ensuring every individual of the flock fulfills his role because this fulfillment will, in turn, bring him resources. The codependency of these two species is fundamental. While the man gives fictitious freedom to the animals he leads, their nourishment is consumed, like a tumor.

The city also observes from afar, represented by the large iron figures of pylons, in the background. Iron giants, immobilized in their concrete bases, hold immense cables creating a large chain to which we are all intrinsically connected. The noise they produce, an essential hum of the electricity flowing, is a constant and massive flow of invisible substance. Extremely lethal if contact is made.

They resemble gods, capable of creating structure and connection where impossible, dangerous and deadly, greater than any man. A mere shepherd coexists with his flock at the limits of the city planted in the desert.

The meaning of this work wants to underline how men, in their essence, belong to the natural world and how the distortion of the artificial is a senseless conception that is now destroyed. The artist presents a work where men, animals and gods are closely related in the same repetition of actions where the only difference is the scale of these actions.

Through the strategy of hunting with the camera, one of the oldest activities that belong to the human being is revealed: transhumance. Today, despite a strong growing urban environment and the extreme development of intensive livestock farming, this ancient practice still resists its disappearance within the city’s limits.