‘Anatomy of a Beach’

Anatomy of a Beach is an installation created specifically for the Disseny Hub de Barcelona exhibition. The ocean speaks. New ecologies and new economies of the sea, curated by José Luis de Vicente. An exhibition that analyzes the effects of human action on marine ecosystems and reflects on how the city can redesign its relationship with the sea, through a discourse based on innovation. In this context, La Pineda beach, in the municipality of Vila-Seca, in the Camp de Tarragona plain, the center of an imaginary amphitheater open to the sea surrounded by the Prades mountains, the Llaberia mountain range, and the Mola de Colldejou, exemplifies the past and future transformations of the world's beaches. About one-third of the world's coastlines are occupied by sandy beaches. The beach is a habitat and a space of mediation between land and sea, between the urban and the natural, between the fixed and the changing. The beach that was, the one that is, and the one that will be stores shared stories on most of the planet's urbanized coastlines.