CONTRA LA INERCIA AGAINST INERTIA - granada cultura

their heads and points unequivocally (Ella, 2007;
Él, 2009).
We can understand these discordances as acclaim for
difference or as an attack on the authority that each
of these portraits attempts to represent separately,
but, given that they approach different parts of the
biography of any individual (family, school, military
service, work, leisure), it appears rather as if, when
taken together, they articulate frontal opposition to
the inertia which, through these institutions, makes
up the identity of every individual as the product of a
Machiavellian assembly line. It is interesting to find
how the theme reappears with different nuances in
the few works from the recent monochrome period in
which Pomet has approached the theme of landscape
or territory. In First attempt (2004) [p. 31] a red line
crosses an elevated view of a town centre. It appears
at the left and crosses first the porch of a house, then
goes up to what seems to be the tower of an industrial
or mining complex and then descends to the cemetery
where, after circling several tombstones, disappears
once more to the right, we know not where. Iván de
la Torre Amerighi has suggested that this strange
landscape is “an allegory of the three states of the human
being: work, rest and death.” 24 Such a summary,
small-scale description gives a desolate impression of
the idea of life’s journey, understood as the result of an
Paco Pomet: First attempt, 2004
oil on canvas, 30 × 30 cm
irredeemable plan or a rigidly established social and
linear order. Something similar happens in Lo nuestro
(2006), where a red rope marks off a space including
what seems to be a church or large building and, far
in the distance, another factory-like building whose
chimney bends unrealistically under the tension of the
rope. In La herencia [The Inheritance] (2008) [p. 62]
it is a house that is comically, softly deformed (exactly
the same way as would happen in an animated cartoon)
under the pressure of another red rope that entraps the
(24) Iván de la Torre Amerighi.
“Extrañezas cotidianas para un mundo
insoportable”, in Paco Pomet: G-Train:
exposición: 14 de enero a 18 de febrero,
Cádiz 2004, Sala Rivadavia. Diputación de
Cádiz, 2004.
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