Marea Viva

Marea Viva is a long-duration action that continues the exploration initiated with Som el foc que crema (2024) and Palimpsest (2025), delving into the relationship between bodies, affections, and collective memory. On this occasion, the performance adopts the metaphor of water as a poetic and political axis: a transformative, connective, and life-generating element.

The action begins with a collective meditation, a gesture of openness and listening that establishes a space of shared intimacy between artists and audience. From there, the bodies unfold onto a large white canvas, marking their path with Klein blue pastel. The stroke becomes an extension of movement: waves, currents, whirlpools. A choreography of flows evoking the vastness of the ocean and its transformative power.

The movements, fluid and interconnected, do not only represent water: they are water. Like it, the bodies adapt, erode, pass through, renew. Memory here is not a fixed archive, but a flowing current, an affective palimpsest where individual experiences merge with the collective, where what is erased still leaves a mark.

The drawing functions as an ephemeral imprint: a mark that exists only in the present of the act, like footsteps in the sand that the sea erases without completely erasing. In this fragility, a space opens up to imagine new forms of relationship, care, and reconstruction of the common.

Marea Viva is an invitation to dive in. To let the boundaries between the self and the other, between the past and the present dissolve. To inhabit the flow, to remember through the body, to care through movement. To think of memory as water: alive, mobile, indispensable.