Medina Parkour: Jordi Colomer
This is what Jordi Colomer narrates in Medina-Parkour: how the spatial configuration of a historical neighborhood (and, by extension, the city), with its terraces and rooftops -places that appear in other works such as “Crier sur les toits” and “The Istanbul Map”-, create an open, accessible, continuous space of domestic intimacy.
Medina-Parkour (2013) presents a set of videos and photographs undertaken by Jordi Colomer during a residency program in Tetouan (Morocco), the former capital of the Spanish protectorate. While there, Colomer directed a workshop with students from the École Nationale d’Architecture that was registered in video format -the piece Architectes (Tétouan). Concurrently with this project, the artist carried out a series of individual activities.
On the other hand, questions like the passage of time in the city or the subjective visions of the urban space (what Henri Lefebvre calls “the production of space”) are also part of the work’s fabric: the temporary character of the medina, inherent to its urban distribution, also influences the multiplicity of the forms and narratives that structure it. This is what Colomer narrates in Medina-Parkour: how the spatial configuration of a historical neighborhood (and, by extension, the city), with its terraces and rooftops -places that appear in other works such as “Crier sur les toits” and “The Istanbul Map”-, create an open, accessible, continuous space of domestic intimacy.
