IP25 / 2016

Eating the Delta
Lo Pati Art Center, Amposta

There are thousands of references throughout human history regarding the ingestion of objects made from animal skins and other simulations. Various medieval Castilian chronicles, for example, record attempts to alleviate hunger by eating the leather of shields, belts, or shoes... Desperate and extreme responses to the experience of hunger, whose echoes also appear in the iconic scene of Charlie Chaplin eating his own shoe in The Gold Rush: cannibalizing objects: the Delta. The Ebro Delta is a natural space with a strong symbolic charge, a fragile space reclaimed from the sea after decades of collective effort by its inhabitants, and one in which Bouesia has explored its creative potentials. "The delta is much more than a natural and tourist space, and by reducing it to a tourist brand, its potential as a still-to-be-transformed territory is being overlooked."