Return the water. Students of Carme Auguet school and Marta R Chust & Roc Domingo Puig

“Returning the Water” is part of the Nexes educational program that unites the Carme Auguet School, the City Council Education Service and the Bòlit. The exhibition presents a set of works made by students from 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade of primary school accompanied by teachers and artists, with the collaboration of the rest of the school.

Water is the protagonist because they decided to focus on the Ter River, which borders it, in a period of drought and climate emergency, such as the one we have experienced in the last three years. To understand the relationship between the river and the water that reaches the school, the 4th grade group investigated the water circuit of the building, creating a series of ceramic sculptures that imitated the pipes and that were located at different strategic points of the school.

The 3rd grade students listened to and recorded the different sounds of water to create a ritual that invoked rain, making a body percussion song imitating a storm. Surprisingly, after the ritual it rained all afternoon. To try to help the river, the 2nd grade group decided to place different tanks on the classroom terrace to collect rainwater and return it to the Ter. To do this, they built ceramic bowls to be able to pass the water around, making a circuit until reaching the river.

This project has allowed the students to delve into artistic practices, but not in an abstract way, but from an element as common and present – or absent – as water. “Returning Water” is an exhibition that closes a project that is, at the same time, educational, artistic and community.