Here / Nowhere is an ephemeral artistic intervention made by Domènec in the ferries that connect the fishing port of Baltimore, in West Cork, with two of the many islands that make up the southwest coast of Ireland. During the months between March and April 2005, Domènec placed two posters on the roof of two of the ferries with the words here and nowhere, 'here' and 'nowhere', making effective a sub-version of the codes conventional The ferries, used daily by the popular classes to go to work, become the ideal vehicle, the privileged place, to make possible an unusual act of communication, at the same time poetic and conceptual, that creates a writing in movement on the landscape . Metaphor of the trip, the exile and the loss, of the tragic history, for example, of thousands of emigrants who left during the ham-brunas of 1846-1848 from the ports of this region of Ireland to America. These words, in turn, here and nowhere, emblematic of the condition of contemporary existence - they could belong to a text by Samuel Beckett - given the disappearance of the specificity of places and the proliferation of non-places, which Marc Augé has described well, spaces such as clonal shopping centers or interchangeable airports that condense the scenario of compulsive consumerism and the continuous and useless displacements that characterize our global world. The intervention of Domènec, clear and impressive, with a deep load of meanings, very well received by the thousands of users of the Baltimore ferries, allows numerous readings that affect both the local context and the universal interest. The Baltimore ferries can be seen as new Charon boats that link the historical imaginary, the memory, the dead and the living. We live here and nowhere, everywhere. The oxymoron, the aporia, the non-sense, appears when the ferriss are crossed that become true bearers of thought, be it in the form of a simple joke, either as an enigma or as an invitation to critical reflection on our time, on the present , but also about the past and the collective and individual future. Splendid photographs and a video document this unique artistic intervention, now and here.

Manuel Guerrero