[gl'aisbilt]

Perhaps the title of this work is all Greek to you, or Spanish as the German says. But if I tell you that this is the phonetic transcription of Gleisbild, the German word that means track diagram, formed by the words “Gleis” meaning track and “Bild” meaning image, you will have a better idea about the topic of this work. I have always been fascinated by the subway, this group of coloured lines connected by dots that allow you to move from one point of a city to another. You arrive at one of those dots from the surface, wait a little bit and through a “magic” tunnel you emerge at another dot. At first sight, all of those dots seem to be cold places where little can happen; there is a constant movement of strangers, each of them with their own pace, their own thoughts, their own distraction… but all of them move at the rhythm of the train arrival and departure as if it were a choreography. I moved to Berlin in 2016 only knowing the most touristic areas, and I had a big desire to explore and know the city. Usually I took the subway to get about, it let me observe the environment, get lost in my own thoughts, cross paths with different people, and enjoy different choreographies. This is how I had the pulse of the city and the subway, and discovered that among everything it had in common with other subways in the world, here there was something unique.