Espigolar per transformar

An experiential and symbolic exhibition that invites reflection on food loss and waste in primary production, 'Espigolar per Transformar' highlights gleaning as a transformative, poetic, and collective act. The exhibition, curated by Virginia Angulo, approaches this structural issue through emotion and visual storytelling rather than data, seeking to move visitors toward awareness and action.

Context Video

Audiovisual piece of strong visual and emotional impact that synthesises the themes, challenges, and responses explored in the exhibition 'Espigolar per Transformar', presented at Palau Robert. Conceived as an introductory experience, the generative video draws visitors into the emotional landscape of the exhibition—offering both a panoramic overview and an evocative tone that sets the mood for the journey ahead.

Through a visual language close to data art, the piece weaves together key figures, rural and urban imagery, agricultural textures, infrastructures, discarded food, and moments of collective action by using images of the photographer Jordi Flores and techniques such as Blob Tracking or Generative Animation. The sound and narration accompany the flow of images with a poetic yet assertive rhythm, emphasising urgency, contradiction, and the possibility of transformation.

Rather than simply explaining, the piece seeks to engage and move—transforming information into landscape, and landscape into a question.

Call to action

A series of seven-segment digital counters that display real-time data on the impact of 'Fundació Espigoladors'. Conceived as a device of collective awareness, the installation visualises the cumulative effort of thousands of people who have chosen to move from observation to action. The piece stands as a living marker—a symbol of the volunteer gesture as a transformative force that quantifies not only data, but the shared will to change.

Each seven-segment counter was custom-built. From design, prototyping, and production of the circuit and PCB to the assembly of the segmented digits within handcrafted enclosures by designer Cayetano Truyols.