Selected as part of the Eufònic – Lo Pati 2025 artistic residency program, this installation imagines the breathing and state of waiting of an object like the “bussó” —the trap used for fishing glass eels— as a representation of the rhythm of pause, the sound that sustains the fragile coexistences of the Ebro Delta.
Its creator is Núria Rovira, an artist from Valls who works between Catalonia and England, specializing in performative and sound research in areas of unstable presences, spaces that juxtapose ruins and ecological mutations.
The landscape of Morecambe Bay, near where she studied Fine Arts in northern England, influenced her methodology, questioning rural symbolisms superimposed with military and industrial activity that alter a ‘strange nature.’ This research has taken her to places such as Walney Island and an abandoned police cell in Liverpool. Rovira has been an artist-in-residence at Lancaster Data Science Institute (2021) and Signal Film & Media (2022), received an Arts Council England grant (2023) to develop interactive sound techniques, and last year completed a research master’s degree in material and sound memory narratives at the University of Oxford.

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