The minimum initial speed that an object needs to escape the gravitational influence of an astronomical body and continue moving without having to make another propulsive effort is known as "escape velocity".
Alex Llovet looks again at his closest environment, this time stopping at beings and objects in search of their freedom . In his own words: “ Everything tends to flee from what conditions their freedom. Freedom understood as the ability to make decisions, an essential quality to define the nature of things or, in other words, their identity. I speak of speeds but also of times and distances since speed is nothing more than the time it takes to travel a certain distance. And I decide to flee from a linear narrative, jumping between events that occurred millions of years ago and others yet to come, between places as remote as the universe to others as close as home. And during the process I realize that we live trapped between two times that do not belong to us, tirelessly moving through the space that separates them. The past reminds us of who we think we are, and onto the future we project who we would like to become. Past and future, the two pillars on which we built our identity. And in this constant coming and going we chase our escape velocity, sometimes consciously, sometimes out of survival instinct. We escape with our actions and with our imagination. We escape from the unknown, from the incomprehensible, from what scares us. We escape from a wound, from guilt, from a memory. We escape from an idea, from a destiny, from expectations. We escape from the illusion of time to head for the present, the only place where we can aspire to be truly free .»
Photographs and texts: Alex Llovet
Format: 19 x 26 cm
