Wounded territory
2023-2024
This diptych is part of the project “Sequere”, an artistic project about time and memory that begins with a symbolic act: collecting water at the mouth of the Ebro and walking upstream to return it to the source of the Segre, in the French Cerdanya. The journey, carried out between 7 June and 20 July 2022 with the psychoanalyst Celeste Reyna, lasted 44 days, during which the walkers covered 750 km, crossing 5 provinces, 9 counties, 3 regions and 2 nations.
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Empty territory
The route from the Ebro Delta to the source of the Segre in the Sequere project. The river is a cut that marks both border and void, detachment and wound.
Empty territory, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 184 × 147 cm
Suture (43 bridges)
The work explores the river’s dual nature as border and as wound. Throughout human history, the river has been a site of prosperity, growth, and conflict; the word “rival” itself comes from the Latin rīvālis—derived from rivus, meaning “river” or “stream”—and referred to those who lived on the banks of a river and shared rights to its water. In the work, the river acts as a line of separation, but also as a scar that cuts through the territory, reminding us of its role in history, especially during the Spanish Civil War. The work traces the river’s course from the Ebro Delta to the source of the Segre, where the 43 bridges crossed during the Sequere journey by the artist and his companion symbolize points of connection and suturing, where walking becomes a symbolic gesture of healing.
Suture (43 bridges), natural pigments and vinyl glue, 193 × 145 cm.