Of Wells, Vessels and Whispers

Meeting Water

This project reinterprets traditional Catalan vessels once used to drink and share water communally, inviting a deeper reflection on our relationship with water beyond its role as a mere resource. Crafted in collaboration with local ceramicist Didi Heras, the ten ceramic pieces were co-created with water from different sources, each shaping the final form of the object itself. At the heart of the installation lies a water-reactive fabric: when the vessels are collectively activated, it gradually reveals hidden visual research into historical Catalan water-related objects. Through this process, the project revives the communal gestures of using, preserving, and celebrating water, connecting ancestral traditions with contemporary environmental awareness.

Making Water Your Own

This project is based on a story of one village in Lithuania named “a place near the well”. The story goes through various water sources that have been used - from the spring, to wells, to sinks - and different kinds of connections to water that emerge, practical and spiritual. Installation features a clay well that visitors are invited to dig during the performance, to listen to archaic Baltic song dedicated to Water, and to see video work documenting the village history. The line between earthly matter - digging for water access, - and spirituality - daily meditation, blurs. Installation invites to make water “your own”, again, with a critical - and healing - look on the distinction between private and personal.

Listening to Water

The third part treats water as a storyteller, embodiment of actions, states, and relationships rather than a uniform substance or resource. In all its fluidity, water fulfills the roles we ascribe to it. How then do we treat it as a layered agent of connection? This part seeks to foster empathy with water and, through it, with the rest of the living world that has similar interactions with it. Through fabric pieces, pigment experiments, and a participatory “Water Lab,” visitors witness water shaping narratives. As it flows through hidden colors, it creates evolving patterns offering a poetic space for contemplation of fluidity and porosity as a way of being.