The commission from the village of Llanos to the artist Laia Estruch will be inaugurated on 13 July.

The Cantabrian project 'Aguas Vivas' (Living Waters) has been working for the last two and a half years on the relationship between the community of this village and its water heritage, together with the mediators, Sören Meschede and Alejandro Alonso Díaz.

After two and a half years of exchanges and conversations between the neighbours of Llanos and the mediators, Sören Meschede and Alejandro Alonso Díaz, through the artistic organisation fluent, the result of the commissioned by this community Cantabria to the artist, Laia Estruch, will be inaugurated on saturday, 13 July at 12hrs, in the village of Llanos de Penagos.

The artistic proposal thus seeks to respond to the question “Could three water fountains become a listening and community revitalisation device?”. This commission recovers and celebrates the oral traditions linked to water, as well as the potential that the village's three springs hold for the community, through a series of spring-tongues that are at once bodies of water, instruments and hinges that connect the act of listening to the territory.

The aim of this first Concomitentes project in Cantabria, ‘Living Waters’, is that of recovering the community's relationship with its water heritage, as well as promoting the inhabitants' closeness to the river and the traditional uses and customs around its sources and springs., The project will create a new social space for exchange and dialogue, based on an interest in preserving the natural heritage that surrounds them. 

Around the village, the three tongues generate a sound path between the fountains, bouncing the drops and the air with the bronze of the sculptures. In this way, each of the three fountains becomes an instrument with which to promote a different kind of listening and to celebrate the life of the community and its relationship with water.