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"Esparto, embodied", summary film - Pilar Miralles (2025)

“Esparto, embodied” is a performative installation and the second artistic part of my doctoral research. It represents the second of a series of three installations aiming to open up my artistic practice and invite the audience to participate in its reflective process. The research is about finding meaning in a world in which we seem to barely catch up with the pace at which things are produced and discarded. How can we establish bonds with our present time, place, and the people inhabiting them when everything seems one-time-use? Coming back to my homeland in rural Southeastern Spain in the search for answers, I realized memory could be the key to resisting the current logics of disposability in our world. In this second installation, I decided to focus on the memories that can be carried by and created through our hands, represented by the concept of craft. Can we see, can we listen through the hands? How does the shaping of the material when crafting shape us back? How does it shape our relationship, our memory of the material? How does crafting allow us to be present (in this time and space, and with the materials and other hands)? I invited the audience to enter the space any time during the opening hours and perform together (yet in our own space) any handcraft, so that what my hands remembered could interweave with what theirs did. I was braiding esparto grass, an element that has become central to my artistic practice. Esparto is a vegetal fiber harvested and used for handcrafting in my homeland for thousands of years. As a waning tradition that has found other purposes and contexts of practice in recent years, esparto grass is one of the traces through which I am trying to figure out how to confer meaning to those things we seem to have forgotten. *** This event was kindly supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland and The Society of Finnish Composers.