“Bermudez constructs a taxonomy of the Humboldtian variations on the American landscape. To do this, he uses archival work, through the obsessive pursuit of prints and books of travelers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracking the variations, stereotypes, imaginaries, perceptions, exoticism and political constructions of that pictorial collage that was the Americanist painting of the nineteenth century.

This universe of meaning that has lasted long to us (and that has helped to build power relations between nations and people). The images will need to be analyzed; we will have to understand their images, how they were built, assembled and disseminated. We must begin to deconstruct the universe of imaginary forms that not only inhabit those old engravings (but also within us): a universe that populates our mind and shapes the senses; we will have to dismantle that intricate collage that builds us and explains us.”