Artist · Researcher
Traces of a Life in Art as Knowledge
Living archive · Artistic research · Public memory
TRACES is the living documentary archive of José Cosme, Spanish conceptual artist and researcher. Public, independently navigable milestone pages are available at josecosme.art/traces; Notion preserves the detailed research and source register. It connects artworks, exhibitions, performances, critical writing, publications, institutional records and academic research through a central proposition: art as a living form of knowledge.
“TRACES is not intended as a definitive archive, but as an evolving cartography of artistic knowledge: a living record of the ways in which a life in art leaves its marks upon the world.”
Selected by curator Demetrio Paparoni for the first Bienal del Agua — The Traces of Water, Inquiry H₂O approaches water as body, matter and process. A block of ice melts, disappears, oxidises other materials and leaves a trace. The installation connects physical action, large-format photography, digital image construction and dialogue with artificial intelligence.