In 2024 I travelled to Iceland. There I found water in all its forms — wild currents, fragments of glacier that looked like diamonds, endless waterfalls, ice trapped in black sand — and, observing them, I gradually found myself as well. What had begun as an outer journey revealed itself as an inner one.

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Aigua (Catalan for water) is born of this double gaze. The photographs, drawn from nature and tending towards abstraction, invite a contemplation in which the observation of the landscape becomes self-observation. Water, which cannot be contained, is here both mirror and metaphor: its qualities —movement, transparency, the capacity to take on different forms without ceasing to be— resonate with our own possibilities.

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The form of the book responds to the same premise. A container-cover holds four formats that dialogue with one another: a cyclical booklet with no beginning or end; three folded and interlaced posters that the reader gradually unfolds and may rearrange at will; an envelope with a text by the writer Flavia Company; and, hidden behind it, a fine art print on cardboard featuring a fragment of ice from the Vatnajökull glacier.

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Limited Edition of 150 copies, numered.

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Design Gemma Bermudo

Text Flavia Company

Size 225 × 155 mm

Print — Risograph cover: Club del Prado — Letterpress: L'Automàtica — Booklets and posters: Nova Era Barcelona — Fine art print: Impressionart

Assembly Gemma B.ermudo