Within the context of MANIFESTA, the European nomadic biennial celebrating its 15th edition in Barcelona in 2024, we are involved with the Heliofilia project, an artistic investigation by Lola Lasurt related to the environment of Els Amics del Sol (a pioneering naturalist movement born in Barcelona in the summer of 1915). The objective of this group was to escape the urban environment by organizing outings to the beach of Can Tunis, located in our neighborhood of La Marina del Port and currently disappeared due to the repeated expansions of the Port of Barcelona.
The research begins with the recovery of archives, compilation of documentation, and testimonies about this collective, in order to update its legacy. Part of the project materializes in a series of artistic reenactments carried out in collaboration with choreographers Mireia de Querol and Manuela Raurich, who will develop their movement research at the Graner.