2050 is the date by which, if we want to survive as a species, we should have completed the decarbonization process by reducing CO2 and other gas emissions to zero. Future scenarios that fit into the utopian thinking, so dear to PSJM, which understands utopia as a guide, as a functional concept of ethical-political action. A utopia that has to be carried out, not to reach perfection in the social sphere, but to avoid falling into the darkest night. Thus, the optimism of PSJM, based on the forecasts and scenarios prescribed by science, appears here as an emotional element necessary to continue, to continue pursuing the line of the horizon, to walk. Sinuous works, comforting chromatic curves that remind us of our commitment to life.

Following the collective’s sustainable approach, the works were made with locally manufactured ecological paint. “2050: landscapes and scenarios” consists of a mural intervention, nine paintings of various formats, four drawings and two sculptures made of polychrome wood. In short, a project that responds to the concept of “painting in the expanded field” theorized by Rosalind Krauss. In a way, painting has always been at the base of the conceptual works of the PSJM team. In the “clean future” series, painting is put in relation with the word, with the space it occupies and with the matter made sign in a game of torsions that have as a final product images of great simplicity and deep significant density.

On the one hand, the murals return to the essence and origin of painting: the wall. This is how it all began, by staining a rock with one hand. And on the other hand, there is a wink to genre painting, since in these works two pictorial genres are updated: the one most valued by the academy, historical painting -since these pieces show diachronic visions- and the one most valued by easel painting, landscape. These are, therefore, “temporary landscapes” that function as social, ecological, political and ethical denunciations, through beauty.