Castanedo (Spain), 2025

Installation that reveals the similarity between the human body and the body of the sea, through a system of suspended IV bags that suggest both care and dependence.

The 0.9% sodium chloride saline solution is chemically almost identical to seawater. This resemblance reminds us that humans are, in essence, aqueous beings biologically connected to the oceans. Yet what should be a fluid exchange has become a process of extraction, pollution, and ecological crisis.

In the installation, seven IV bags hang from the wall some filled with seawater collected in Castanedo, others with saline solution, and one final bag containing a mixture of both fluids. The work poses an essential question: Does the sea nourish us, or are we draining it to exhaustion?

The tones of the water inside the IV bags range from the darkest blue to the lightest, evoking a sensory and emotional experience of the sea: from the feeling of depth and coldness to the warmth of the surface, from the unfathomable to the revealed. This gradient transforms water into liquid memory a reflection of the relationship between the body and the vastness of the ocean.

In Transfusion, water is not merely a resource: it is a living body, a shared biological memory, a mirror of our own existence.

Charleen Capote