«I started with snow and I’ve ended with fire»

Caterina Avinyó · 11.07.2025 · Last update: 21.06.2026 · Translation: AI · Project Body Ebro (La Entrega III) · Topics: avinyó, canal 21 ebre, press, body ebro, walking

Marco Noris, Italian artist

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Caterina Avinyó’s original article was published in Catalan in Canal 21 Ebre on 11 July 2025. The copy on this site is my personal archive.

‘I started with snow and I’ve ended with fire.’ These are the words of the Italian artist Marco Noris who, after 82 days of walking and more than 1,200 km on foot, has reached the final phase of the Cos d’Ebre project. It is an artistic research carried out on a journey that follows the river Ebro from its source, at Fontibre, to its mouth at the Mediterranean Sea. A route that went through different stages, the last one marked by the Paüls wildfire.

Averaging 25 km on foot per day, Noris has also been developing ideas and material for an exhibition he will present with the help of the Centre d’Art Lo Pati. The artist has stated that one of the conclusions he has drawn is that ‘returning to the land is the only way to stay alive.’

An artistic research that conceives of the river as a living body, a political and cultural border or an archive of memories and conflicts, beyond a simple natural element.

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