IP03 / 2005

Old Church of Beneixida
Josep Renau Hall
Fine Arts Faculty of Valencia, Arte Santander
Varis Almudéver Collection

Beneixida disappears beneath the water. The celebration reappears as a form of bodily and emotional reinscription of a lost territory⁸. Art here does not represent—it activates: producing bonds, rearticulating communities⁹. The ephemeral as a space of symbolic reappropriation.

8. Paul Ricoeur, Memory, History, Forgetting, 2000
9. Grant Kester, Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art, 2004