Cossos daigua. Cartografies d’un metabolisme líquid'

The exhibition Cossos d'aigua. Cartografies d'un metabolisme líquid is the result of a joint project between the MMB and the Panoràmic.Festival de Cinema, Fotografia i més for the 10th edition of the Panoràmic festival. The Panoràmic File is part of an exhibition programme sheltered by the Panoràmic.Festival de Cinema, Fotografia i més, which highlights the photographic collection of the MMB, thanks to the contemporary artist Marina Planas.In this project, Marina reflects on the impact of transport and global consumption on the oceans, as well as on the rest of the planet and all its inhabitants. Starting from images from the Archive of the Consorci de les Drassanes Reials i Museu Marítim de Barcelona, the artist builds visual constellations that trace the history of maritime transport from the late 19th century to the present, and show the transformation of coasts and oceans, which have progressively become spaces of tourism and consumption.Planas focuses on the acidification of the oceans, caused largely by the current globalised economic systems. This process has altered marine ecosystems and put numerous species at risk, but it also directly affects our own bodies, since we form part of one interconnected system. The artist uses food and the body as metaphors for thinking about how we metabolise environmental damage. The sea thus appears as a living, generative body that we share with other species. Faced with the ecological crisis, the work vindicates the interdependence between human and non-human bodies and proposes the desire for a future based on care and collective sustenance.