The visual artists Teresa Martín and Carmen Platero were chosen to develop an artistic project during a residency at the Ḅlit Residència Girona Creativa space. The project will be part of the International Mapping Festival of Girona 2015 programme, where it will be presented and shown publicly for the first time.
The jury was made up by Núria Font, director of video and curator specialised in the digital arts; Jordi Armengol, director of the Girona Municipal Art School; Richard Hebert, director of the Bloom 3D Centre and Emergent Technologies; and Carme Sais, director of Ḅlit Contemporary Art Centre. The projects were presented and the winning proposal was selected: Teresa Martín and Carmen Platero's "Aigües" (Waters). This project wants to highlight the relationship between water and women in history and in rituals. Through this collaborative process, participants in the different programmed activities reflect on the water that runs through the city and shared public spaces.
Memory can cross spaces through water, such as in the Arab Baths, used by Capuchin monks for washing clothes; the mikveh as a ritual site in feminine intimacy; spaces for socialising such as fountains and squares; the water of the Dona d'aigua (Water woman) of Catalan mythology or the capitals of the Monastery of Sant Pere de Galligans with its motifs of mermaids in the cloisters. These, amongst others, will serve to open up a new dialogue with the public.
Resident artists will stay in Girona for a month, from the 30th of July to the 30th of August, 2014, to develop a site specific project in the audiovisual field of mapping, which will be shown in the FIMG 2015.