Selected work

The Limits of Control

The same materials as before, but measured, counted, ordered and temporarily controlled.
Year2022
MaterialsExisting roof tiles, stone blocks, metal cylinders, wood and other site materials
ContextConfluències, IVAM
PlaceSempere
Curated byEva Bravo and Sonia Martínez
Design and installationOriol Pinell
PhotographyMiguel Lorenzo / IVAM
The Limits of Control

Sempere is a village shaped by the control of water. The Bellús reservoir transformed the territory and introduced a second geography: areas that may one day be flooded.

At the edge of the village I found an abandoned threshing floor where construction materials were partly buried by vegetation. The intervention consisted of clearing, measuring, classifying and rearranging everything already there.

Thousands of roof tiles became a cube of about 160 cm per side; more than fifty large stone blocks were excavated and ordered; broken tile fragments filled two metal cylinders already on site.

In the end, the materials are essentially the same. They have simply been enumerated, measured, reordered and controlled. But for how long?