Children were invited to paint with watercolors how they imagine they could travel to the future using water, specifically water from the Guadalquivir while envisioning a future world.
Although endless drawings were done on those sessions with children from Cordova the construction of the true spaceship meant to land by the river Guadalquivir never came to be.
These spaceships work with water. They are foldable books and and still hold in them the question: how can we investigate the future? Certainly children are the answer.
I wish I would have had received a spaceship watercolor book when I was a child and asked: how do you imagine the future? maybe I did receive it after all.
These spaceships carry a story. They were apart of a commission by TBA21 at the City of Cordoba where I was invited to develop a project - that in the end it never came to be. Back then, I chose to work with the river Guadalquivir. I felt the river was a sentient and historical time machine, a snake-like timeline that provided a meandering source of life in the Cordoba's history of superimposed layers of past events. How can we investigate the future? Maybe we should ask the river and maybe we can ask children too, maybe we can ask both of them simultaneously, but perhaps these questions could be asked from the future itself. So the artist 'Eduardo Navarro' travelled to the future to send these foldable watercolours spaceships books to the children of Cordoba. They were asked one question: how can they use the water of the Guadalquivir river to travel in time and how do they imagine a future world?
