Meeting with the authors of the Sequere art project

Emigdi Subirats · 22.09.2022 · Last update: 07.01.2026 · Translation: Claude (Anthropic) · Topics: events, sequere, memory, tortosa

Date: 22/09/22
Author: Emigdi Subirats
Original article: Trobada amb els autors del projecte artístic Sequere | INSTITUT DERTOSA

Last June the artist Marco Noris and the psychoanalyst Celeste Reyna visited the air-raid shelter in Tortosa, together with the local artist Antonia Ripoll. It was part of their walk from the Ebro Delta to the Font de Segre. They met with last year’s group 4B from our school right in front of the air-raid shelter from the war, located on Carrer Hemingway.

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This is what they tell us about the project: on 20 July we finished our route, delivering the water we had collected in the Ebro Delta to the Font del Segre, after 44 days of walking. With the water from the river mouth that we carried with us, walking 750 km, we delivered what was lived and recorded, the memory of what was, of what was crossed by us and by this water on its round trip. Every singular encounter, like the one we had with you, added itself to our crossing and gradually became, as we advanced, a collective experience in which the water was symbolically impregnated with the history of the territory through first-person narratives and all the experiences we came across. With the memory of the water, we delivered everything that, updated within history from the present, speaks to us and challenges us: war, climate change, internal and external migrations, the neoliberal exploitation of the territory, the disappearance of rural culture…

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By throwing the water with the history of the territory impregnated within it, we built a collective poetic gesture that seeks to renew and transform what is repeated cyclically in time and in history; a gesture that tries to repair some segment of the memory of humanity that still keeps wounds open. We want to share with you our journey of walked paths, so that you can imagine where the words that were given to us during the crossing travelled, words that later became part of the “act of delivery” and that, when the water was thrown into the spring, took new courses, new forms, being born in other ways. Hoping to stay in touch, we will keep you informed about the evolution of the project and the exhibition that will take place at the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs in Lleida in 2023, the first result of this crossing in which people have taken part with their steps, words and stories. This walking crossing belongs to the art project Sequere by Marco Noris, produced by the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs of Lleida; if you would like to know more, you can visit the project website here: http://m.noris.link/Sequere.

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