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Urdaibai is a protected area known for its extraordinary natural wealth. Despite its appearance as an untouched landscape, human intervention has gradually reshaped it to suit its needs—through artificial canals, riverside agricultural developments, and even large-scale industrial constructions. In the early 20th century, this territory underwent major anthropogenic transformations: the course of the Oka River was artificially channeled, meanders were cut off, and its banks widened.
This mutable landscape is one to which Gema Intxausti (Gernika-Lumo, 1966) returns time and again. “I believe that territory defines each of us,” she says, “but… I feel more drawn to the idea of identity as something tied to movement—as if it were lighter. I identify with personal experiences that emerge untethered from a specific place or past. I wonder what it would mean—what it would look like—to imagine an identity without territory.”
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Urdaibai is a protected area known for its extraordinary natural wealth. Despite its appearance as an untouched landscape, human intervention has gradually reshaped it to suit its needs—through artificial canals, riverside agricultural developments, and even large-scale industrial constructions. In the early 20th century, this territory underwent major anthropogenic transformations: the course of the Oka River was artificially channeled, meanders were cut off, and its banks widened.
This mutable landscape is one to which Gema Intxausti (Gernika-Lumo, 1966) returns time and again. “I believe that territory defines each of us,” she says, “but… I feel more drawn to the idea of identity as something tied to movement—as if it were lighter. I identify with personal experiences that emerge untethered from a specific place or past. I wonder what it would mean—what it would look like—to imagine an identity without territory.”
To approach what might be considered the farthest...More
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