The land out to sea and the sea on land

Premià de Mar beach, November 1973: Fina Miralles initiates a series of actions called Translacions (Translations). First, she displaces a section of grassed turf out to sea. Days later, she moves the sand from a dune on the beach to the middle of a field: ‘... it derives from the awareness that each element has a space and, therefore, a context’, wrote the critic Alexandre Cirici. By changing the place and space, the artist emphasises the importance of these elements, as well as the idea of context.