Cos d’Ebre - Lo Pati
Exhibition text for Cos d’Ebre at Lo Pati in Amposta —from 6 September to 16 November 2025— curated by Andrea Pacheco González.
Photos: Oriol Gracià, 6 September 2025. Lo Pati, Amposta
Cos d’Ebre is a research project by the artist Marco Noris that presents walking as an artistic experience. For eighty days, between April and July 2025, Noris walked along the bank of the river Ebro, from its geological source at the Pico de Tres Mares, Cantabria, to its mouth in the Mediterranean, in the province of Tarragona, a stretch of more than a thousand kilometres in which he crossed seven autonomous communities. Through this project, conceived and carried out in collaboration with the psychoanalyst Celeste Reyna, the artist explores the river in three dimensions: as body, as border and as archive. On his journey, sometimes alone but most of the time accompanied, he establishes a dialogue between his human-body and the river-body from a physical dimension, but also a political and even a spiritual one. The fluvial torrent is transformed into a space of memory that contains, mobilises and preserves —among its diverse materialities and organisms— stories and life experiences.
The exhibition at Lo Pati presents a set of artistic pieces in different media and materials: videos, photographs, sound recordings, ceramics, watercolours on paper, paintings on canvas, as well as organic remains and objects found during the journey. To this series of newly produced works are added: Sequere, a project carried out by the artist between 2022 and 2024 and also linked to the river Ebro, and the Roman piece Figurative representation of the river Ebro, a marble fragment belonging to the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona, which possibly corresponds to a statue that personified the river as a deity.
Cos d’Ebre proposes a reading of the territory in real time, where the act of walking activates a corporealisation that links geography, history, ecology and community. The works that the visitor will find in this exhibition are the continuation of the path begun in Cantabria. These pieces may be understood as testimonies —always insufficient— of a journey, material signs of the extraordinary experience of inhabiting the world with whatever the body is able to carry. As Le Breton argues, the body is a multidimensional measuring instrument, a broad-spectrum sensory tool whose parameters are the entire cosmos contained within one’s own existence. Under the sun, the rain, the stars, in contact with water or in silence, it is the artist’s body that performs the journey, for the “immensity of the space through which to walk corresponds to the immensity of the inner universe” of the walker.
Andrea Pacheco González
Curator