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From the 8th of September to the 24th of November, Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana presented a comprehensive programme featuring installations, archives and performances by the participants of the edition.
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Submerso / percolação das águas [Submerged / water percolation]
- TypeInstallation
- ParticipantMaja Escher
- VenueThe Three Chimneys
![Submerso _ percolação das águas [Submerged _ water percolation], 2023 © Maja Escher. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana _ Ivan Erofeev .jpg](/media/m15-bucket.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/large_Submerso_percolacao_das_aguas_Submerged_water_percolation_2023_Maja_Escher_Photo_Manifesta_15_Barcelona_Metropolitana_Ivan_Erofeev_5a01bef531.jpg)
Submerso / percolação das águas [Submerged / water percolation], 2023 © Maja Escher. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev
Water is one of the primary elements in the ceramic and textile-based practice of the German-Portuguese artist Maja Escher. In her work, Escher focuses on water management and (mis)use, especially as it relates to the intensive farming appropriation and subsequent soil desertification in Southwest Alentejo, her home region, which finds itself at an ecological impasse. Escher often uses soil from this region to create her work; the clay powder and dust state the absence of water.
In Submerso / percolação das águas, Escher dyed fabrics with local muds and clay and permeated them with both activist slogans and local traditional poems, some of which have been authored by the oral poet Manuel da Graça, the artist’s neighbour. The banners channel the voices of different bodies of water and other entities, endowing them with agency, so that they claim their rights and express their strength and desire for freedom. Taken together, the banners can be read as a manifesto for unity and participation as well as communal, joyous and just cohabitation.
![Submerso _ percolação das águas [Submerged _ water percolation], 2023 © Maja Escher. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana _ Ivan Erofeev. .jpg](/media/m15-bucket.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/large_Submerso_percolacao_das_aguas_Submerged_water_percolation_2023_Maja_Escher_Photo_Manifesta_15_Barcelona_Metropolitana_Ivan_Erofeev_efa6826239.jpg)
Submerso / percolação das águas [Submerged / water percolation], 2023 © Maja Escher. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev
2023
Unbleached cotton fabric, beeswax, earth and clay from the Santa Clara dam, ceramic, reeds, hazelnut tree branch, eucalyptus branch, cotton and linen rope
Variable dimensions
Courtesy of the artist
Supported by Ammodo, the Directorate-General for the Arts of the Ministry of Culture of Portugal and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
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