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Joya: arte + ecología was selected to participate in the Granada Millenium Biennale. Contemporary Art and Heritage (Bienal del Milenio Reino de Granada. Arte Contemporáneo y Patrimonio) with the project ‘The Unseen Exists and Has Qualities’. The Granada Millenium Biennale is a biannual itinerary of contemporary art that uses material and immaterial heritage of the city and its surroundings. Twelve ephemeral and contemporary art projects will be made throughout the city in order to spread the cultural heritage of Granada. The works will be shown in places like the Alhambra, the Bañuelo, the Casa de los Tiros, the Palace of the Counts of Gabia and the Darro river. The event started last 6th of November and will finish the 17th of December. Joya: arte + ecología’s contribution is called ‘The Unseen Exists and Has Qualities’ and manifests itself as a protracted performance/installation by the banks of the river Darro in Granada. The work will involve excavation and ‘rammed earth’ construction and a ‘pit kiln’. ‘The Unseen Exists and Has Qualities’ represents shelter, food, energy, commerce, world trade and economics. It referres to waste, world hunger and concerns mismanagement of the natural environment. The works construction references the Mudéjar architecture and design of Granada and Andalucía. A time of culture, tolerance and inventiveness. The work starts and evolves and returns to the earth over a short passage of time. It involves excavation, ‘rammed earth’ construction, pottery, pit kilns and erosion. The process summons earth, water, smoke, ash, fire and rivers, manifestations which have throughout history an association with something otherworldly. They each represent ‘transition’ from one state to the next. However, the whole installation is a protracted performance that provokes human nature to attribute meaning to these transitional elements. However we are saying ‘do not interpret phenomena as allegory’. The work highlights that in reality each persons sense of meaning is ‘absurd’ as the works interpretation in human terms is meaningless and should be viewed as a rational understanding of ecology systems.