CAN FANGA

Barcelona, like all cities, is a place in constant change and development: plots of land, excavations, demolitions, constructions… During these processes, the earth is uncovered from the asphalt, revealing the layers of earth beneath the city.

When I see these spaces in transformation and the uncovered earth, I ask myself: are these lands a potential for creating a craft that tells us about our contemporaneity? Are they the sediments that narrate the actions and changes produced in this space? How can this materiality be transformed into information that tells us about its geology? How much land has been contaminated? Is there life left in it?

We live in a time of conflict with the land. What was once a common good now involves a power struggle. Land today is perceived as a mere commodity and profit; therefore, we must rethink our relationship with it and find new paradigms that show its value and re-propose the possibility of offering egalitarian and non-abusive relationships with our environment.

The aim of the project is to make use of disused, toxic or eroded land in the city to create the basis for an artisan practice connected to the territory. It also aims to readapt an ancestral technique to turn it into a contemporary and reflective practice. What stories can the ceramics extracted from these spaces tell about our contemporary society? And about the past?

The project is accompanied by Paula García-Masedo.

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