Selected work

Divide a Terrain in Two, and in Two, and in Two, and in Two…

A piece of land repeatedly divided by dry-stone walls until the divisions form a spiral path.
Year2023
MaterialsDry stone
ContextConfluències, IVAM
PlaceCastell de Cabres
StatusPermanent work
Curated byEva Bravo and Sonia Martínez
PhotographyMiguel Lorenzo / IVAM
ConstructionEmil, dry-stone specialist
Divide a Terrain in Two, and in Two, and in Two, and in Two…

At Castell de Cabres, much of the landscape is crossed by dry-stone walls that divide the territory into small irregular plots. Seen from above, this fragmentation becomes almost a drawing.

I took one circular threshing floor and repeatedly divided the same piece of land. Four dry-stone walls, approximately 30 linear metres in total, create a fractal-like territory that must be walked in a spiral to reach its end.

The reference to the Fibonacci spiral arose not as an image to reproduce, but as a system of successive subdivision.