The experience begins before reaching the water. The public will depart from the city center on a journey that functions as a rite of passage, leaving behind the urban rhythm to enter the stillness of the natural park. once there, guided by the artist herself, Attendees will walk along trails where birds and the horizon are the true protagonists of a natural choreography. At key points of the route, the silence of the marsh will be intervened in an unexpected way. A choral group of women will bring out their voices to translate, poetically and figuratively, the singing of birds to the human throat. By transferring ornithological language to choral polyphony, a mystical link is created between nature and culture, reminding us that we are a single voice in the defense of the environment.
Helle Siljeholm, whose practice ranges from sculpture to performance and who has a decade of experience in collaborative projects in the Middle East, brings to Valencia a deep look at land formations and their intertwinement with human beings. His work in the Albufera is the result of months of research into how we inhabit the present and what possible futures we can imagine for these endangered landscapes..
«A performative walk at sunset, where the air is filled with human voices that imitate flight, and where the ground we walk on tells us the story of everything that must be preserved".
