Herri bat behar da mendi bat altxatzeko (It takes a village to raise a mountain) is an exhibition created by artist María Jerez for this new edition of Situ-akzioak, with design collaboration from the IPI Karmengo Ama and Herrera Ikastetxea schools, as well as a group of families. Situ-akzioak is a project that produces spaces for play, sensory activation, learning, and experimenting through art.
This exhibition invites us to enter into a landscape that is transformed as we navigate, raise, move, turn, blow on, caress, and contemplate it. It is a landscape that also observes us, changes us, and lets us enter, be, traverse, or disappear to reappear as a mountain.
A landscape never exists by itself; it is always in relationship with others that it exists, mutates, changes, is agitated. This is an invitation to mutate, change, and agitate this environment, while we allow ourselves to be agitated, mutated, and changed by it. Moving on to be a volcano, the wind, an earthquake, an anthill, a passer-by, an avalanche...
A large, soft, amorphous textile surface.
A stage set for appearing and disappearing within, below, or behind it.
Mountains that grow.
A giant spinning sun, and other small ones that invite us to be stars.
Cloths that allow us to enter into the bowels of subterranean worlds.
A second skin for sounding together like a rattlesnake.
Soft rocks for sinking arms into.
Long sticks acting as river flows.
A sound landscape that rolls out the sound of what we touch itself.
Mountains for growing together and, perhaps, who knows, “raising a village”.
