La Surera, Almedíjar
(September 2024 - January 2025)
Founded by: Europe Moves - Europa Creativa and the Goethe Institut.
I have was invited by La Surera: Espacios de Encuentros Rurales. To develop a research and participatory project around explorations of territoriality and local knowledge in Almedijar, a small town in the National Natural Park Sierra de Espadan. This initiative proposes artistic practices as bridges with the rural context to work towards creating strategies to respond to the climate crsis from a local perspective.
Following my vision of intimate geologies, I have been researching local geology to be able to translate it into intimate embodied processes. Making gestures of collecting and transforming local rocks into pigments I have been learning and feeling the materiality that constitutes the surrundings of Almedijar. This pigment research is becoming a watercolor pallet that I aim to use with the filtered water of these mountains, to visualize these stories.
Clay and Territory: creative laboratory in Almedijar’s school
Sierra de Espadán’s Geology around Almedijar doesn’t correspond with clay formations. This has been a challenge for my clay practice. However I have been working with clays around the area of Valencia, developing a creative laboratory with children of the school of Almedijar. In this Laboratory we are getting to know clay, playing with its different states, and learnign to sculpt. Our main goal is to explore the sense of terriotoriality with the children making maps, locating water, locating connections betwen each other. Towards the end of these sessions I aim to work towards a colective radical imagination of strategies to respond to the water crisis that this town and region faces.
Sierra de Espadán’s Geology around Almedijar doesn’t correspond with clay formations. This has been a challenge for my clay practice. However I have been working with clays around the area of Valencia, developing a creative laboratory with children of the school of Almedijar. In this Laboratory we are getting to know clay, playing with its different states, and learnign to sculpt. Our main goal is to explore the sense of terriotoriality with the children making maps, locating water, locating connections betwen each other. Towards the end of these sessions I aim to work towards a colective radical imagination of strategies to respond to the water crisis that this town and region faces.