Cossos d’aigua. Cartografies d’un metabolisme líquid

An exhibition at the Museu Marítim de Barcelona that draws on its photographic archive to reflect on the impact of transport and global consumption on the oceans and on the bodies that inhabit them.

Cossos d'aigua is a joint project between the Museu Marítim de Barcelona and the Panoràmic festival of film, photography and more, now in its tenth edition. It forms part of the festival's exhibition programme and showcases the museum's photographic holdings through the perspective of Marina Planas's proposal.

Planas works with images from the archive of the Consorci de les Drassanes Reials i Museu Marítim de Barcelona to build visual constellations that trace the history of maritime transport from the late nineteenth century to the present day. In them, one can see how coasts and oceans have gradually been transformed into spaces for tourism and consumption.

The itinerary focuses on the acidification of the seas, caused largely by global economic systems, and on how this process also affects human bodies, which are part of the same interconnected system. Food and the body serve as metaphors, and the sea appears as a living body that we share with other species. The proposal champions the interdependence of humans and non-humans and envisages a future based on collective care.