Terra Sub Hasta recasts the visual language of fish auctions from the Ebro Delta as a speculative fiction about subsidence, coastal regression and rising sea levels. Without adaptation measures, the studies consulted forecast that nearly half of the Delta will be permanently flooded by 2050, with even more devastating scenarios projected for 2100.
The piece recreates a transactional device: lots, cadastral data, surface area, elevation and estimated year of flooding appear on screen, while the public can “acquire” the right to use a plot once it has gone underwater. The gesture, seemingly playful, places the public in an ambiguous position: witness, buyer and opportunist in the future distribution of a disappearing landscape.
Josep Piñol
Josep Piñol (Tivenys, 1994) works across performance, installation and conceptual research. His practice explores the relationships between ritual, legality, authority and political ecology, focusing on how value is produced and how certain forms of power are legitimised in public space. Through situational devices and acts of mimicry, Piñol appropriates institutional, administrative and commercial languages, displacing them to expose their contradictions. His works do not seek to comfort; instead, they place us before a very specific discomfort: the gap between the narratives that organise the world and the material effects they leave on bodies, territories and lives.
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