Maremortum

2016

Maremortum is part of the project Refugium, refugia —which interrogates the idea of refuge and its reverse: exile, flight, the loss of home— and shifts that reflection towards the Mediterranean. Once a space of exchange and life, the sea has become a territory of border and death: a vast mass grave for those who cross it in search of a new home. A passage towards refuge, the Mediterranean becomes a tomb: a threshold suspended between hope and disappearance.

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Audiovisuals and sound works

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Maremortum, 2016, 26:00. The work offers a silent gaze upon that dense surface, where the beauty of blue is progressively concealed by the darkness of absence. Here, water is at once threshold and burial, mirror and abyss: an impossible refuge. Thanks to Kike Bela and Antonio Bela Armada for their collaboration in filming the video.

Maremortum, diptych, 2016, oil on canvas, 100 × 100 cm and 146 × 146 cm