The river is now a road 2023

"The river is now a road" stems from a collective and personal memory: childhood afternoons sliding down the Choapa River on inner tubes, when play was freedom and nature was an ally. Today, that same river, transformed by time, water scarcity, and extractivism, no longer flows as it once did. However, it remains as a trace, a line, an imaginary route.

This work seeks to make the river visible as an emotional and political territory. Through artistic expression, it becomes a symbolic path connecting past and present, community and memory. Amid future ruins and altered landscapes, I wonder: what will we have left when the water is gone? What stories will remain when the riverbed dries up?

“The river is now a road” is also an invitation to remember and resist from within, recognizing in the empty riverbeds a possibility of transition toward new ways of inhabiting and narrating our environment.

The river is now a road 2023

"The river is now a road" stems from a collective and personal memory: childhood afternoons sliding down the Choapa River on inner tubes, when play was freedom and nature was an ally. Today, that same river, transformed by time, water scarcity, and extractivism, no longer flows as it once did. However, it remains as a trace, a line, an imaginary route.

This work seeks to make the river visible as an emotional and political territory. Through artistic expression, it becomes a symbolic path connecting past and present, community and memory. Amid future ruins and altered landscapes, I wonder: what will we have left when the water is gone? What stories will remain when the riverbed dries up?

“The river is now a road” is also an invitation to remember and resist from within, recognizing in the empty riverbeds a possibility of transition toward new ways of inhabiting and narrating our environment.