This project was born as a performative action around the figure of the poet Jacint Verdaguer and his poetry collection Lo Canigó, one of the most representative books of Catalan literature of the Renaixensa, written in 1883. The action addresses the idea of ​​error and perspective, the arbitrariness and the change of human paradigm, which has suffered since the mid-nineteenth century the idea of ​​the roof of Catalonia, (the highest mountain), with all the cultural implications that entails. Of the popular beliefs about the height of the Canigó, and the impossibility of measuring the end of the 19th century (the roof was considered thanks to the fact that the height of the 2784m massif, surrounded by plains, comforted it with a majestic splendor compared to other mountains of the Pyrenees), it moves to the scientific measurements of the 20th century, where the Pica d'Estats is established as the roof of Catalonia with a height of 3143m. Again in 2016 in the XXI century, it is established that it is the peak Verdaguer (Baptized in honor of Jacint Verdaguer a few meters from the piste d'Estats), displaces the previous ones with the latest GPS measurements, giving rise to the roof of this in 3138.1m and the pica d'Estats in 3137.5.

 

The work is executed as the action of a Flanneur, a walker who will follow the route that Verdaguer himself drew, replicating the rise of both massifs around 1879-1881 (Verdaguer is still the first man to document the ascension of the Pica d'Estats ), and placing on the top of each of the mountains a milestone in the form of an exploration box, which will be anchored there.

 

Each one of the boxes will contain the same objects, consisting of the same map redrawn and with the artist's notes updating the height of the mountains, a compass, the handwritten fragment Lo Pirineu from Lo Canigó's collection of poems and an acoustic recording where you will hear the verses of Lo Pirineu, recited by inhabitants of the Pallars region, location of Pic Verdaguer.