Single-channel video work. Duration 4m 50s.

Exhibited at Sindbad, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from Dec 2023 to Mar 2024.

Since the historical rupture of the Spanish Reconquista, the sonorous landscape of Andalusia has been instrumentalised by different groups to assert ideological conceptions of ‘Spanishness’ and to harden the socio-cultural boundaries of Europe. The film uses found footage and narrative to tell a story of separation and loss, and cultural resonance across the Mediterranean sea. The narrative exposes the multilayered cultural origins of the Andalusian sonic forms in Arabic poetry and gitano culture, challenging the flattening of its context in revisionist historical accounts. An understanding of the sonorous foundations which stretch across the Mediterranean provides a space of reflection which isn’t possible within the dominant epistemological frames of ‘Spanishness’. The contemporary migrant crisis, in which thousands of migrants have attempted to cross the Spanish-Moroccan land border in Ceuta, is the prism through which the various sonic and socio-political territories are mapped in the film.