SILENCE AND METAMORPHOSIS in "The Imperfect Herbarium".

 

Like Zen verses, Marta Sánchez Marco's pieces place in the foreground that which goes unnoticed on the walk if we are not "awake": the minimal, the transitory, the incomplete, the fleeting... Hence, in Francisco Loscos y Bernal's treatise: Serie imperfecta de las plantas aragonesas espontáneas (1867), Marta found a reflection of her feelings towards nature, as she too refused to embrace the infinite mosaic of parts that constitutes life.

The device has a double quality: introspective (meditative) and critical (of environmental deterioration). It is an open route that invites visitors to take a silent, non-hierarchical stroll among the elements on display, like a horizontal score. Visitors can let themselves be carried away by their own motivations and intuitions, just as they would do when visiting a historical museum or on a country walk.