Coach from Barcelona to visit the Cos d’Ebre exhibition at Lo Pati (Amposta)

On October 11, a coach will depart from Sants station in Barcelona to visit the exhibition Cos d’Ebre at Lo Pati in Amposta.

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From September 6 to November 16, 2025
Opening: Saturday, September 6 at 19:00
Centre d’Art Lo Pati, Amposta.

Curated by Andrea Pacheco González.

Cos d’Ebre is a research project by the artist Marco Noris that presents walking as an artistic experience. For eighty days, between April and July 2025, Noris travelled along the banks of the Ebro River, from its geological source at Pico de Tres Mares (Cantabria) to its mouth in the Mediterranean, in the province of Tarragona—a distance of more than a thousand kilometres, crossing seven autonomous communities. Through this project, conceived and carried out in collaboration with the psychoanalyst Celeste Reyna, the artist explores the river in three dimensions: as body, as border and as archive. On the journey, sometimes alone but most often accompanied, he establishes a dialogue between his human-body and the river-body from a physical dimension, but also a political and even spiritual one. The flowing torrent becomes a space of memory that contains, activates and preserves—through its various materialities and organisms—stories and lived experiences.

The exhibition at Lo Pati presents a set of artistic works in different formats and materials: videos, photographs, sound recordings, ceramics, watercolours on paper, paintings on fabric, as well as organic remains and objects found along the route. To this series of newly produced works are added: Sequere, a project made by the artist between 2022 and 2024 and also linked to the Ebro River, and the Roman piece Representació figurativa del río Ebre, a fragment of marble from the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona, which may have belonged to a statue that personified the river as a divinity.

Cos d’Ebre proposes a real-time reading of the territory, where the act of walking activates an embodiment that links geography, history, ecology and community. The works that visitors will find in this exhibition are the continuation of the path that began in Cantabria. These pieces can be understood as testimonies—always insufficient—of a journey, material signs of the extraordinary experience of inhabiting the world with what the body is able to carry. As Le Breton argues, the body is an instrument of multidimensional measurement, a broad-spectrum sensory tool whose parameters are the entire cosmos contained within existence itself. Under the sun, the rain, the stars, in contact with water or in silence, it is the artist’s body that performs the route, because the “immensity of the space through which one walks corresponds to the immensity of the walker’s inner universe.”

Andrea Pacheco González
Curator