Tornar al riu was produced during a residency for the Inundart Festival in 2025, in collaboration with the Arxiu Municipal de Girona and Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani .

It is set in Girona, a city in Catalonia, Spain, crossed by four rivers — the Onyar, the Güell, the Galligants, and the Ter. Four presences that have divided and traversed it, nourished its factories, threatened it with floods, marked the seasons, and formed the backdrop of its life. Organic archives that carry sediments and stories with them.

In Catalonia, language and collective memory have been submerged for decades. During Francoism (1939–1975), the Spanish dictatorship systematically erased Catalan culture: the language was banned from public spaces, and regional identity silenced. And yet, all of this has continued to flow underneath. The project brings together archival photographs and contemporary images, exploring how a community constructs and transmits its own image over time. Not a confrontation between past and present, but parts of a single flow.

Tornar al riu inhabits this unstable space, seeking the portrait of a city between what the archive has retained and what continues, despite everything, to flow.

2025