Moonlight
- Harsa (Arantxa Recio Parra)
Harsa was inspired by the coast around Carballo to create her mural. The town belongs to the geographical spot known as Costa da Morte, an area of spectacular beauty and rough seas, which earned its nickname thanks to the multitude of shipwrecks that have been registered in this coasts over the centuries. Some of them were suffered by the English Navy, who used the name Costa da Morte to refer to this Galician coast around a hundred years ago. There are also many legends, stories and popular tales about marine mythology, shipwrecks, piracy, pillage and other liturgy that proliferate in the collective memory of the area. They talk about the region or about its inhabitants, and some more certain than others …
Harsa delved into and investigated these legends and popular tales about shipwrecks and marine mythology. She skillfully put together this composition full of poetics and fantasy, which refers to a conjugation of various legends and in which a giant mermaid guides the ships that sail the coast to avoid falling prey to a fateful end. Her language works a sophisticated synthesis with which she manages to summarize a narrative landscape in a single image. A subtle and sensitive ability, the result of the work of concretion through modeling and the study of shapes, colors and the final composition.
