A la intempèrie. Atendre un fora de temps
Job Ramos i Fina Torres
Three activities around a wildlife breeding centre.
/ Site-specific film / Reproduction of nature / Artificial ecosystem / Outdoors /
- Do you think nature notices us?
- All the time
Job Ramos, in collaboration with Fina Torres, proposes three activities at the Astacifactoria del Molí de les Fonts:
The first part of the triptych consists of an activity that experiments with emitting images during the night from the Astacifactoria del Molí de les Fonts, a centre for wildlife recovery, based on a series of mirror images designed to exceed the human attention span and open up to meeting with other species and temporalities, in an attempt at “cosmic diplomacy”, as the philosopher Bruno Latour pointed out. Emitting images that, in turn, are light; that act as a lighthouse from the body of water that was formerly the Molí de les Fonts fish farm.
The second part of the triptych involves opening access to the activity at the Astacifactoria del Molí de les Fonts, where Fina Torres works and does maintenance at the centre. In parallel, Job Ramos will accompany the visit with readings, commentaries and an exhibition of objects.
The triptych is completed with a screening of the film A la intempèrie (2021), filmed at the wildlife recovery centre.
Job Ramos has worked in the fields of installation, film, sound, interactive media, performance and sculpture. His projects are often site-specific, in which he addresses the relationship between the natural and the artificial, seeking to create unusual situations, far removed from the notion of utility or construction. His practice involves the site, the materialities and relationships that shape it; from a kind of ultra-local ethnography, he explores surrounding spaces down to the most unexpected details, modifying tempos, changing the roles of domination and power, shifting the focus towards more extreme angles, and so forth. This is all done using painstaking research processes, forcing reiteration (an iteration that takes place over time) to find the unexpected, and with unconventional lines of work that always take paths off the beaten track.
Fina Torres is a wildlife recovery technician. For the last fifteen years she has been in charge of the Molí de les Fonts wildlife recovery centre.
In collaboration with: Parc Natural de la Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa, Forestal Catalana and Bòlit, Centre d'Art Contemporani.
