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HUERTA HERTZ

A project by Younes Zarhoni & Margherita Isola
Historical Botanical Garden of Barcelona
2022

00:00 / 06:06

To listen to other poliphonic compositions:

Huerta Hertz is an immersive experience in the Historical Botanical Garden of Barcelona, inviting visitors to rediscover this green space by exploring the plants that inhabit it. Many of these plants are native to the Mediterranean and play a prominent role in the region's collective imagination, whether in literature, religion, folklore, or politics.

Huerta Hertz can also be understood as an archaeological reflection on the Mediterranean soul: a multilayered exploration shaped by interdisciplinary practices, bringing together botany, textile art, and musicological research centred on the region's polyphonic singing traditions. Each plant inspires a short interspecies fiction and a healing musical practice, both of which invite us to rethink how we understand and weave interconnections across time and space.

By rooting ourselves in this web of relationships and learning to listen to plants, other ways of perceiving the Mediterranean become possible: a plural, polyphonic, and shared sea, rather than a territory where privileges and borders must be defended. Huerta Hertz is an invitation to bring about this transformation.

Visitors experience Huerta Hertz by following a self-guided itinerary through the garden, accompanied by a mobile application featuring a map, a musical audio guide, embroideries, and texts.


The project has been supported by Barcelona 2020 Awards from Barcelona City Council.

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