Atrapa-sons, de Núria Rovira

Exhibition room StripartQuè: what does it mean to listen to a breath? We listen to the breathing of the people we love, of those who sleep and whom we want to watch over. Or that of those who, fragile or vulnerable, need our silence in order to rest and heal.Atrapa-sons wants to listen to the breathing of the Ebro Delta through a singular object: the bussó. Between December and March, this device spends its nights submerged in the waters near the Ebro's mouth. It is a fishing trap that, with a small light, attracts into its interior a highly prized fish: the young of the eel, the angula or anguileta.This exhibition imagines how the traps breathe through the river's night, an orchestra of sounds and noises recorded from the Balada pier, within the Eufònic/Lo Pati 2025 residency. Inside, an image moves: the trembling of the moon on the water. Tradition says that on full moon nights there is good fishing for anguileta. Here, the moon draws us inward, turning the object into a space; a snare and, at the same time, a refuge that breathes and dreams.Before the sleep of the other, we keep silent. We whisper. We keep watch. Like someone walking on glass that might shatter at a sound. This is what the fishermen call 'no fer tropell' (making no disturbance). The sounds and images of the sleeping bussó also teach us to 'no fer tropell': a form of care and attention that speaks not only of the fragility of angula fishing, but of the vulnerability of the whole Delta: a wounded territory that continues to breathe under our gaze.This project was made possible thanks to the trust and generosity of Marcel·la and Marcel, the owners of the bussons and fishing lights, together with the collaboration of the Confraria Pescadors de Sant Joan.Núria Rovira Terradas is an artist from the Vallès who works between Catalonia and England on performative and sound research. Her artistic practice explores the activation of spaces through listening and movement. She wants to intervene in spaces in ruin or in transformation: places with incomplete presences or unstable absences, such as an abandoned cell, a bell tower, a shell or a trap. The landscape of Morecambe Bay, near where she studied Fine Arts in the north of England, fed her curiosity for liminal spaces: a muddy desert between tides that overlaid symbolisms of rurality with military and industrial activity. Rovira has been an artist in residence at the Lancaster Data Science Institute (2021) and at Signal Film & Media Lab (2022-2026); she has been selected to take part in Shilpa Gupta's workshop at the Fundación Botín (2024), and has received an Arts Council England grant (2023) to develop interactive sound techniques. In 2024 she graduated from the Ruskin School of Arts with an MFA. In 2025 she took part in Eufònic Festival as an artist in residence, and residencies such as Lo Pati, Roser de Foc and a cobert. In 2026 she won the Artiga Revista award as an emerging artist from the Tarragonès.