It has been some time since we have heard about her, but she is remembered to be colourful and in abundance throughout Alicante. She is a butterfly whose common name in Spanish is ‘pánfila’, meaning sluggish or foolish, perhaps because its flight is short, low, and lazy. The entomologists say that she has fallen into an ‘evolutionary trap’, because she attempts to produce various generations per year and is unable to find food due to the region’s increasing aridness. Nevertheless, another butterfly from her same family is in all its splendour, since it only appears once a year.
The teachings of these small insects demonstrates one of the great tales that relates quickness and abundance with progress, transforming into an invitation to work slowly and continuously in the landscape that she once inhabited, Mount Benacantil. This mountain was projected as empty, and they even tried to convert it into another Mount Ulia. During her residency at Tabakalera, the artist will go further with her research completed to date, which explores other evolutionary traps present in this landscape, and an audiovisual piece entitled ‘La (t)rampa’ will be produced.
