With rice as its central material, ASTAMERA unfolds a piece that speaks about territory, labour, memory and community from a very specific place: the Ebro Delta. Here, rice does not appear as a mere symbolic element, but as a material charged with history, identity and tension, shaped by market transformations, the fragility of local agricultural models, and the loss of shared ways of life.
Set in the Mercat Municipal d’Amposta, the proposal brings body, territory and community into relation through an element as deeply significant in the Delta as rice. From there, ASTAMERA opens up a view onto everything that runs through this landscape beyond its image: labour, memory, shared ways of life, and the tensions that transform it.
ASTAMERA
ASTAMERA is the artistic name of Sara Porres, from Amposta, whose practice moves between performance, installation and sculpture, shaped by memory, roots, and the relationship between body, space and territory. The name recovers the nickname by which the community referred to her great-grandmother, who was linked to the craft of knitting stockings for local farmers, and connects with a line of work in which biography, transmission and context become material for research.
In her works, Sara Porres activates found objects, material remains and disused forms to reflect on ruin, domestic memory and the transformations of the landscape. She has shown work and actions in spaces such as Kasal de Joves de Porta (Barcelona), Les Nits del Tirika (Alcanar), Espai Ebre KM0 (Amposta), Galeria East West (Barcelona), FemmArt / “Camión de Transporte” (Santa Eulàlia de Ronçana) and Hochschule für Bildende Künste / “Picnic” (Dresden).