Exhibitions
Drift: the memory of traditional fishing
Salvi Danés and Yurian Quintanas transform fishermen's huts into spaces of contemporary creation and collective reflection.
The fishermen's huts of l'Escala, fragile witnesses of a culture in regression, are the starting point of Deriva, an exhibition that presents photographs and an audiovisual piece with the aim of recovering a way of life that is fading. The project, the result of a three-month artistic residency at the Casa dels Forestals in Sant Martí d'Empúries and promoted by Salvi Danés and Yurian Quintanas , will inhabit the rooms of the Alfolí de la Sal – Museu de l'Escala from tomorrow, May 17, where it will be transformed into an artistic itinerary between memory and intuition.
The two artists, recognized for their international career in the field of photography, explain that the title Derivaremet refers both to the progressive disappearance of this ancestral craft and to their own way of approaching creation: a compassless immersion in the Empordà environment, where disorientation becomes a creative tool. From this open and exploratory attitude, a hybrid proposal emerges that transcends the document to offer a sensitive and contemporary story. The photographs, far from limiting themselves to documenting, raise questions about the present and future of a territory in transformation, oscillating between testimony and poetic interpretation.
Deriva, Salvi Danés i Yurian Quintanas
At the same time, the audiovisual piece articulates image and sound in a fragmented composition that fully integrates the nature of the landscape, deploying visual planes that, through natural phenomena, found objects and diverse forms of life, amplify the metaphors of the discourse and propose an aesthetic and philosophical reading. The exhibition therefore commits to a poetic rereading of maritime heritage, with the aim not only of preserving the memory of the fishermen's huts, but of activating them as symbolic spaces for reflection on the territory, identity and cultural transformation.
Selected from among 27 projects by a jury formed by Cristina Masanés, Enric Tubert, Natàlia Chocarro, Ricard Planas and Eduard Bech, Deriva is part of the 26th edition of the Primavera de l'Escala Grants , consolidating itself as a proposal that connects tradition and contemporaneity from a committed artistic perspective.
Deriva, Salvi Danés i Yurian Quintanas
