Disseminar l'última terra / Disseminating The Last Clay
Disseminar l'última terra / Disseminating The Last Clay
Miquel Matas Ferrer
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Disseminating The Last Clay is a publication conceived of as the workbook of Miquel Matas Ferrer, for his project “The Last Clay”. With this intention, it brings together readings, references, notes, film stills, sketches, tests and images of some of the manifestations that have thus far emerged from his research.
“The Last Clay” is an artistic research project that takes as a case study and pretext the last batches to be extracted of a type of white clay called argila Remei (literally, “Remedy clay”). Remei clay was extracted throughout the 1980s and 1990s from sites in Castell d’Empordà (La Bisbal) and Monells, as well as from various sites in Fonteta, Sant Climent de Peralta and Canapost.
Nowadays, this clay is only used to make mixtures with other types of clay. The imminent disappearance of Remei clay invites us to reflect on how extractive dynamics and their related practices (artisanal, industrial, artistic, etc.) define and transform a particular area. It also helps us to focus on other current issues playing out in other places.
Meanwhile, the extinction of a clay that has fallen out of use and is no longer extracted can also be understood as a metaphor for our pace of consumption, the fragility of natural resources and the supremacy of the Anthropocene. Based on this research work around the history of Remei clay and the extraction work of the Argiles Colades clay mining company, the artist proposes a series of visual, objectual and performative approaches that, at the same time, speculate on the possible fate of this last clay.
100 pp. / 21.5 x 16 cm
Print run of 200 copies
Bilingual CAT / ENG
Texts: Rita Andreu and Miquel Matas Ferrer
Graphic design: 19a39 Studio
Offset printing
Papers: Materica Kraft 250 gsm (cover) and Arena Ivory Rough 120 gsm (interior)
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