'La Forme de l'Eau' illuminates the facade of Lo Pati

The giant screen on the facade of Lo Pati - Centre d'Art hosts La Forme de l'Eau until April, an audiovisual proposal by Marie-France Veyrat and Jaime de los Ríos . This work, which combines science and digital art, recreates the movement of water using algorithms and fluid physics, generating a visual choreography in constant transformation. Its digital poetics aims to transcend the laws of gravitation and evoke the language of dreams, opposing Newtonian laws through algorithms rendered in real time.

La Forme de l'Eau integrates the first-person narration of Marie-France Veyrat, who recalls the unexpected discovery of a waterfall during a family day out. This experience, transported to digital format, becomes a visual reflection on memory, movement and the interaction between opposing forces. The location of Lo Pati, where the sea and the river meet, also accentuates the natural symbiosis that the piece wants to convey. The work belongs to the New Art Collection , a collection of technological art promoted by the New Art Foundation of Reus, an entity committed to the conservation and dissemination of the intersection between art, science and technology.

This screening is part of the annual cycle Economies of Water: Scarcity, Transformation and Memory, curated by Vanina Hofman and Valentina Montero , a project with water as a common thread that explores its ecological and political implications and its fundamental role in collective memory, as well as current environmental challenges. The rest of the works chosen during the cycle, such as La Forme de l'Eau, will address issues such as memory and contemporary water problems associated with climate change and ecological-political conflicts derived from extractivism and migratory phenomena. The program includes works by renowned artists such as Paloma Villalobos Danessi , Estefanía Muñoz , Eugènia Balcells , Enrique Ramírez and Gabriel Valansi , which will be exhibited after the proposal by Veyrat and de los Ríos.

Marie-France Veyrat, born in Lyon and residing in Almoster, stands out for her work in techno-art-digital installations, a discipline that she combines with the creation of brutalist sculptures that inhabit both public and private spaces, consolidating herself as one of the most relevant figures in the contemporary art scene. She also experiments with textiles and recycled ephemeral art. Her career has led her to exhibit in leading spaces such as Es Baluard, the Museum of Modern Art of Tarragona and ARCO Madrid. For her part, Jaime de los Ríos, founder of ARTEK [Lab], investigates the interaction between art and science, focusing on natural patterns and collective intelligence. Her work explores immersive environments and dynamic systems that emulate computational behaviors inspired by nature.