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EN: In Madrid's University City, near the presidential palace, upon the fields of the Cantarranas sports complex men and women engage in a playful, symbolic form of combat: rugby. The nearby palace is surrounded by elements of fortification: towers, cameras, fences. Like in a palimpsest – a manuscript with several layers of effaced text – this flat surface is superimposed upon a rough, hidden topography: the lost valley of Cantarranas. Under thousands of cubic feet of earth dumped in around 1967 there lie a small valley, a creek, trees and viaducts. There, dozens of feet below the players and palace guards of the present, other combats took place, and other fortifications were watched over. What is the shape of all that earth that separates one combat from the other, one fortress from the other, which engulfs bridges and streams? In Vaciando Cantarranas this earth is removed, like a cast taken out of a mold. From this perspective, the past has not passed, but rather is the mold that shapes the present.

ES: En la Ciudad Universitaria de Madrid, cerca del Palacio de la Moncloa, sobre los campos del complejo deportivo de Cantarranas se practica un combate lúdico y simbólico: el rugby. En torno al palacio cercano, se disponen elementos de fortificación preventiva: torres, cámaras, vallas. Como en un palimpsesto —un manuscrito con varias capas de texto borradas—, esta superficie llana se superpone a una topografía accidentada y oculta: la desaparecida Vaguada de Cantarranas. Bajo miles de metros cúbicos de tierra vertidos en torno a 1967 permanecen sumergidos un pequeño valle, un arroyo, árboles y viaductos. Allí, a varios metros por debajo de los jugadores y vigilantes del presente, se desarrollaron otros combates y se vigilaban otras fortalezas. ¿Qué forma tiene toda esta tierra que separa combate y combate, fortaleza y fortaleza, que engulle puentes y arroyos? En Vaciando Cantarranas esta tierra se retira, como quien saca un vaciado del molde. Desde esta óptica, el pasado no ha pasado, sino que es el molde que conforma el presente.

Credits
3D models of the viaducts: Campus Husso Digital
3D printing: Rafael Parrilla and Pablo de Arriba
3D modelling and video rendering: Belén Jiménez Fernández-Palacios
Some photos are by César Delgado

Créditos
Modelos 3D de los viaductos: Campus Husso Digital
Impresión 3D: Rafael Parrilla y Pablo de Arriba
Modelado 3D y video rendering: Belén Jiménez Fernández-Palacios
Algunas fotos son de César Delgado