Girona's City Council, through Bòlit Contemporary Art Centre, has opened the selection process to choose a national or international visual artist and/or a professional creator to develop a piece that will be part of the International Mapping Festival of Girona 2015, where it will be presented and put on public display for the first time.

The aim of the call for submissions is to develop artistic projects during a residency at Bòlit Residència Girona Creativa and promote production and contemporary creation in the city, disseminate them and link them to professional contexts so as to generate proposals that are innovative, informative and creative.

The jury was made up by Núria Font, director of video and curator specialised in the digital arts; Jordi Armengol, director of the Girona Municipal Art School; Richard Hebert, director of the Bloom 3D Centre and Emergent Technologies; and Carme Sais, director of Bòlit Contemporary Art Centre. The projects were presented and the winning proposal was selected: Teresa Martín and Carmen Platero’s “Aigües” (Waters).

This project wants to highlight the relationship between water and women in history and in rituals. Through this collaborative process, participants in the different programmed activities reflect on the water that runs through the city and shared public spaces. Memory can cross spaces through water, such as in the Arab Baths, used by Capuchin monks for washing clothes; the mikveh as a ritual site in feminine intimacy; spaces for socialising such as fountains and squares; the water of the Dona d’aigua (Water woman) of Catalan mythology or the capitals of the Monastery of Sant Pere de Galligans with its motifs of mermaids in the cloisters. These, amongst others, will serve to open up a new dialogue with the public.

Resident artists will stay in Girona for a month, from the 30th of July to the 30th of August, 2014, to develop a site specific project in the audiovisual field of mapping, which will be shown in the FIMG 2015.