From 4 May to 2 June.
Església de Sant Miquel. Seu d’Ègara.
Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 to 13.30 and from 16 to 19 h. Sundays and holidays, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There was no job and no future. There was nothing, and nothing could be worse than staying in the village. I was the hope of my family. I knew I could die, but I had to, and try to reach Europe from the water, despite not being able to swim. I am from Senegal, I am from Morocco, I am from Mali, I am from Guinea, I am African.
The darkness was moving toward us, and we toward the darkness.
Since 2014, almost 30,000 people have lost their lives in the Mediterranean in search of a decent future. Eva Miquel’s landscapes latently preserve the memory of the lives that were lost and the memories of those who managed to survive.
Des de l’aigua (From the water) it addresses the theme of migratory crises through a poetic and visual exploration. Through photography, drawing in the graphite pencil, video and installation place the viewer in the center of the landscape. Similar to the masters of Romanticism and its approach to nature, Eva Miquel shows us a vast and unattainable horizon of saltpeter under which lies the most absolute restlessness.
His work is born from a commitment to active listening with migrants and his strength lies in a gaze that transcends listening to settle in the experience of the other. Looking from the otherness, placing the focus on memory, in whose visual experience travels from the sea and looking for a reference that leads to the ground.
It is an invitation to question the roots of inequalities, to confront the violence exerted from power and to reflect on the complexities of migratory crises.
Fleeing from the discourse of security, the artist emphasizes personal experiences and the need to listen to the other, because only when we approach we are able to glimpse the resemblance to our own desires and desires.
“The origin of this project was born with From the water, a book made with the publisher Zahori and the collaboration of the Red Cross, which deals with the drama of the migration of the Mediterranean from the experience of two women and eight men from Africa who reached European coasts by grazing. The narrative is a journey written in the first person, giving voice to the ten survivors who told me their fear of the water when they thought they were dying. Each page is an image dedicated to them and they, the point of view of the images, largely places the reader in the middle of the sea, as they described me”.
Eva Miquel.
