As part of the EUROPALIA ESPAÑA festival, WIELS is screening films by Brussels-based visual artist Edurne Rubio, including Clamor (2022) and the premiere of her latest film, Los huesos no flotan (2026), followed by a Q&A with the artist.
Programme:
11:00–18:00 (on a continuous loop) I Clamor (2022)
15:00 I Premiere of Los huesos no flotan (2026), followed by a Q&A with the artist, moderated by Susanne Weck (in English)
Still : Los huesos no flotan, Edurne Rubio, 2026
In her films, Edurne Rubio takes the audience on a journey through key moments of Spanish history. She does so from the perspective of individual stories, those of everyday life, seemingly mundane and often erased from official history. In Clamor and Los huesos no flotan, she focuses on the province of Burgos, collecting stories marked by the historical events and processes that have shaped the territory and its inhabitants.
Los huesos no flotan (2026), 20 min
The Ebro reservoir, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, is in a border region, a geographical line that separates the Atlantic from the Mediterranean climate. The meeting of these two worlds causes constant tension, creating an unstable place in continuous transformation. It is said in the area that when the reservoir dam was built and water filled the valley, flooding villages and cemeteries, bones began to float and fog covered the region. This latest film by Edurne Rubio is a portrait of an ecosystem, an attempt to hear the voices of its inhabitants: waters, willows, fish and ghosts.
Clamor (2022), 17 min
In this film, the artist portrays places that have served as burial sites for those whom the Catholic Church rejected: suicides, babies who died before being baptised, those who were shot, atheists, passers-by, Protestants, ... The current state of these places reflects the coexistence of life and death and the cohabitation of different species within the territory, questioning the monopoly of certain institutions over the sacred.
Edurne Rubio is a visual artist born in Burgos and based in Brussels. Her practice moves between different contexts and formats: performances, films and sound projects that are presented in theatres, cinemas, exhibitions and public spaces. She creates situations that generate tension between what we see and what we hear, travelling between present, memory and imagination. Drawing on the anthropological approach, she uses the interview as her main working method. She constructs collective narratives from individual stories, proposing a subjective reading of history dependent on the affections and in continuous transformation.
This event is part of EUROPALIA ESPAÑA festival and is co-organised by EUROPALIA and AECID / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain, in collaboration with the Spanish Embassy in Belgium, and supported by the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Lottery.
Film credits
Los huesos no flotan
Director: Edurne Rubio; Photography: Hans Jr. Bruch; Sound: David Elchardus; Editing: Jan de Coster and Edurne Rubio; Sound design: Charo Calvo; Production: Hilife / Rosa Galguera; Co-produced by EUROPALIA, AECID / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain and the Spanish Embassy in Belgium
Clamor
Director: Edurne Rubio; Photography: Yann Bétant & Edurne Rubio; Sound: Luca Rullo & Edurne Rubio; Sound mix studio: Audiolab; Colour grading: Joop Parey; Bells: Ismael de la Iglesia; Produced and exhibited by Artium Museoa - Museum of contemporary Art of the Basque Country (July 2022); Produced in collaboration with Mondragon; Curator: Garbiñe Ortega; Production assistants filming: Elías Rubio & Damna Barredo; Administration: Duchamps vzw