{"id":933,"date":"2024-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/concomitentes.vl22350.dinaserver.com\/y-fuimos-monte-un-relato-visual-y-textual-del-ritual-sentires-do-monte\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T18:51:26","slug":"y-fuimos-monte-a-visual-and-textual-account-of-the-sentires-do-monte-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/en\/y-fuimos-monte-un-relato-visual-y-textual-del-ritual-sentires-do-monte\/","title":{"rendered":"And we were mount. A visual and textual account of the Sentires do Monte ritual."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/en\/diary\/fomos-monte-ossentiredomonte\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">(Read in Galician here)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This art project arises within the framework of the project <em><u><a href=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/en\/concomitances\/common-mountain\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Terra Common<\/a><\/u> <\/em>of Concomitentes with the mediation of the cultural researcher and curator <strong>Natalia Balseiro <\/strong>and with the participation of the President of the <em><u><a href=\"https:\/\/montesdecouso.gal\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Community of Montes de Couso<\/a><\/u><\/em><u><a href=\"https:\/\/montesdecouso.gal\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> <\/a><\/u><strong>&nbsp;Xos\u00e9 Ant\u00f3n Ara\u00faxo;<\/strong> Together with them, some three hundred people have taken part in more than thirty meetings, work sessions, walks in the mountains, parties and learning days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>collective desire <\/strong>defined by these <strong>comuneras and comuneros, neighbours of Couso, <\/strong>after months of collective deliberations was: \"<em>to highlight his legacy among the closest neighbours and young people, with the idea of guaranteeing generational replacement\".<u><br \/><\/u><\/em><br \/>The invitation to <strong>Asunci\u00f3n Molinos Gordo<\/strong> (1979, Aranda de Duero, Burgos, Spain) researcher and visual artist, she was <strong>to respond to this collective desire, through an art project<\/strong> generating new links with the bush. She is an artist with a tremendously open and situated formalisation in her art projects, working from a perspective strongly influenced by the methods of disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, with the contemporary peasantry as the main focus of her work.<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54084235007_a11ef6674c_k.jpg\" alt=\"Beginning of the Ritual Feast (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    Asunci\u00f3n Molinos Gordo during the beginning of the Ritual Festival (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In order to compose the art project, Asunci\u00f3n was accompanied for eight months by some twenty community members, but also neighbours and members of other mountain communities. <strong>working group<\/strong> who participated in the <strong>design of the Fiesta-Ritual.&nbsp;<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Being together, opening up new conversations and generating links through a series of visits, walks, interviews, informal meetings and writing exercises (odes, letters, municipal banners, handshakes, charters and other writing tools) that were composing other forms of bonding with the bush, the <strong>essential elements of the forest<\/strong> to shape the ritual: <strong>water, totemic animals, herbs, air-oxygen, food, wood, fire, firewood, horses, ancestors and memory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1st ACTION: Call to the Mount.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With these elements and in-depth research work on each one of them, the Fiesta-Ritual is made up of a series of actions that began in the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/\/36389+Gondomar,+Pontevedra\/@42.079706,-8.8144157,33208m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m8!4m7!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0xd258e13673e8dfb:0x5bc8850e2ea58690!2m2!1d-8.7320149!2d42.0797355?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwMi4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Viewpoint of San Antoni\u00f1o<\/a><\/u>&nbsp; following the call for the clearing of the forest by the older members of the community with the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/gl.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/buguina\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Buguinas <\/a><\/u>coming from A Guarda, recovering an old method to call comuneras and comuneros to clean the mountains. The call to the Monte was made by Iria Enr\u00edquez Bland\u00f3n, Paloma Amigo Garc\u00eda, Pepe Re\u00f1ones Rodr\u00edguez and Luis Alonso Bagacigalupe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-08.47.09-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Call of the conch shells and start of the tour (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    Call of the conch shells (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>2nd ACTION : Water.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They processed together to the <strong>source of the river Couso<\/strong> where the water that makes life possible in this area originates. Xos\u00e9 Ant\u00f3n Ara\u00faxo, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Lago, Iria Enr\u00edquez Bland\u00f3n and Asunci\u00f3n Molinos Gordo shared ancestral and collective knowledge and practices about what water can do, presenting the Rabilonga, or the signalling horse, of the <strong>drinking water<\/strong>. They unveiled the practices of water plantation and performed. <strong>gestures in community<\/strong> inspired by irrigation communities, where water is shared among all beings.<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-10.39.43-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Couso residents wash their faces with river water. (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    Couso residents wash their faces with river water. (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-10.38.29.jpeg\" alt=\"Catching water, washing one&#039;s face and returning water to the river as a sign of gratitude. (c) Andreia Iglesias.\"><figcaption>\n    Catching water, washing one's face and returning water to the river as a sign of gratitude. (c) Andreia Iglesias.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-18.30.36.jpeg\" alt=\"Xos\u00e9 Ant\u00f3n Arauxo of Montes de Couso speaks at the source of the river. (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    Xos\u00e9 Ant\u00f3n Arauxo of Montes de Couso speaks at the source of the river. (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>3rd ACTION: Food<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They ate together, celebrated that they are here and alive. They put their bodies to make the feast, the rite, their own, and they put it on. A stop at the Souto Chan das Eiras where they shared the food offered by the mountain: one hundred kilos of wild boar donated by the Sociedade de Caza la Gondomarense, cooked by the specialist cook in game meat Eva Florenti\u00f1a from Gondomar, washed down with house wine from the vineyards of the villages linked to the mountain and accompanied by chestnut and mushroom pies from the mountains of Couso cooked between the Bar Gondomar and the O Penisco Bakery (Gondomar).<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-18.38.46.jpeg\" alt=\"Meal with products of the forest (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    Meal with products of the forest (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>4th ACTION: Regueifas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The young women from Gondomar Alba Herranz Pazos, Mar Herranz Pazos, Carmen Villanueva Rey, Paula Pi\u00f1eiro Gonzalez and Ruth Comesa\u00f1a Granja, all of them students of 4thESO of the IES Pluril\u00edng\u00fce Terra de Turonio - performed conflicts of the forest, of yesterday and today, through several regueifas composed by themselves with the help of the regueifeiro of Godomar Luis Caruncho and the teacher and artist Elena G\u00f3mez Dahlaren. These five young women composed the lyrics of this verbal game about the love affairs in the forest that continue to exist since ancient times, but also about the distance between the administrative bureaucracy of forest management and the reality of neighbours who live the forest every day as a teacher, as a family member, as a companion.<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-10.40.46-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Regueifa with five young people from the area. (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    Regueifa with five young people from the area. (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>5th ACTION: Herbs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A group of women made up of Sara Gonz\u00e1lez L\u00f3pez, Pilar Talariz Cobas, Mar\u00eda Lemos Cerqueira, Susana S\u00e1iz Medinger, Monste Salgueiro Varela and Lucila Rial Prado shared their knowledge and experiences about medicinal herbs and their different food, medicinal, spiritual uses... They also prepared, together with Elisa Diego Diaz from the Bar of the Casa Veci\u00f1al de Couso, different herbal teas made from herbs that used to be found in the Couso Mountains and are nowadays found in the gardens and orchards of the neighbours. These infusions were sweetened with honey donated by the Community of Montes de Vincios through Montse Salgueiro Varela.<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-18.25.57.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>\n    Some of the herberas transferring the knowledge of the plants (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-18.25.57-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>\n    Some of the herberas transferring the knowledge of the plants (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>6th ACTION: Horses and Youth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sheila Ribero Rodr\u00edguez, Olivia Dawod Molinos, Paula Pi\u00f1eiro Gonz\u00e1lez and Adri\u00e1n Alonso Docampo, the youngest members of the community, mounted on the horses of Suso and Jos\u00e9 Alonso Santos and Paco Le\u00f3n, guided us through the mountain to the burial place of the ancestors of Couso, the oldest members of the community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-18.25.57-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>\n    Three horsewomen and a rider lead the group. (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>7th ACTION: M\u00e1moa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jes\u00fas Rodr\u00edguez Dieguez traced a journey through what are today, for Couso's neighbours, the m\u00e1moas; collective burial constructions in the upper part of the mountain that their ancestors chose to bury their commoners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-18.25.57-6.jpeg\" alt=\"The history of the first settlers of Couso . (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    The history of the first settlers of Couso . (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>8th ACTION: Bagpipes, the third lung&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The artist Mercedes Pe\u00f3n composed a performative and sonorous space within the Fiesta-Ritual with the Pipe Band Nuevos Aires de Couso from the m\u00e1moa at the foot of Monte do Facho. The bagpipe players Marcos Castro Gonz\u00e1lez, Jose Lago Villa, Fabio Duran Dios, Nicolas Abaldes Lorenzo, Jes\u00fas Abaldes P\u00e9rez, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Hermida P\u00e9rez, Andrea Gomes Rodr\u00edguez, Nayara Fern\u00e1ndez Benites and Javier Abalde made the fol of the bagpipe sound as if it were a third lung, emulating their breathing through the mountain, as our ancestors did, when there was no electricity, to scare away the fear with their bagpipes. At the foot of the mountain they played the piece that Pe\u00f3n composed for them as an offering to the Montes de Couso.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-10.42.15.jpeg\" alt=\"The bagpipes, the third lung (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    The bagpipes, the third lung (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-10.42.41.jpeg\" alt=\"The bagpipes, the third lung (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    The bagpipes, the third lung (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>9th ACTION: Firewood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Basilio Calzado from the Comunidade de Montes de San Salvador shared with us his knowledge and learning about how to collect the wood to light the fire and what other uses the woody plants of the mountain, such as pine cones and gorse, had. After his indications, the whole group took a bundle of firewood to climb Monte do Facho and burn it in a collective, communal bonfire.<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-10.43.45.jpeg\" alt=\"Collection and burning of firewood (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    Collection and burning of firewood (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>10TH ACTION. Fire&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They ended up at the top of Monte do Facho, making a common bonfire to illuminate, as their ancestors did to the neighbouring communities of the sea, as a lighthouse, the community of Couso mountains illuminated the mountain, they let themselves be seen, we are here, we are alive, we are together, we continue to know our mountain, generating new links with it and between us and today we come to listen to it.<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-10.43.46.jpeg\" alt=\"Bonfire from the highest point of the Couso mountains (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    Bonfire from the highest point of the Couso mountains (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>11th ACTION: Plan for the Protection of the Forest&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iria Enr\u00edquez Bland\u00f3n, one of the youngest community members, read a poetic adaptation that the artist Asunci\u00f3n Molinos Gordo wrote of the Plan de Autoprotecci\u00f3n del Monte, also written by the artist herself, based on the work sessions held with community members, neighbours and people from other mountain communities. It is a legal document that aims to inspire other forest communities to protect this common good, which is so valuable for life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-10.43.46-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Reading of the Self-Protection Plan (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    Reading of the Self-Protection Plan (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>A rite that marks a beginning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this ritual festival, which is planned to be an annual event, the artistic process also takes the form of a Self-Protection Plan for the Mountain, which recognises the rights of these mountains and which has been designed by the artist on the basis of the collective work sessions.<\/p>\n<p>A document, inspired by other similar processes such as the Law approved in 2022 to grant legal personality to the Mar Menor in Murcia and the Tins de Outes River in Galicia, which seeks to safeguard the future of these territories managed by the comuneras and comuneros, and thus inspire other similar models.<\/p>\n<p>The content of this Self-Protection Plan, the result of various meetings between the artist, mediator and the working group, made up of members of the community, neighbours and members of other mountain communities, will include topics such as the care, protection, use, production and transmission of knowledge in the territory.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, in the last working session of the Terra Com\u00fan project, scheduled for December, the Community of Montes de Couso will receive the protocol through which they commit themselves to give continuity to this Festival-Ritual every year, keeping it alive, changing, adapting it to their needs and to the times, but living it together, in communion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Asunci\u00f3n Molinos Gordo. A work about the peasant world<\/p>\n<p>The researcher and visual artist, Asunci\u00f3n Molinos Gordo, has developed an artistic oeuvre that revolves around rural cultures and the international peasantry. She has produced work connected to the transformation of agrarian labour, the impact of biotechnology and international food trade,<\/p>\n<p>transhumant architecture and peasant protests, the CAP and the bureaucratisation of the territory, ancestral irrigation systems and peasant forms of building well-being. He won the Sharjah Biennial Prize in 2015 with his project WAM (World Agricultural Museum) and represented Spain at the 13th Havana Biennial 2019. His work has been exhibited in institutions such as Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico, Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in London, The Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai, Arnolfini Contemporary Arts in Bristol, Tranzit in Prague, Cappadox Festival in Uchisar-Turkey, MUSAC in Le\u00f3n, CAB in Burgos, Matadero in Madrid, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, CA2M in Madrid, among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Identity and history of the community of Montes de Couso<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The community of Couso is made up of 85 community members and seeks to convert the forest into a multifunctional resource of value and a source of resources in order to achieve a greater environmental value and a more respectful environment with native tree species. They work to advance in their self-sufficiency, the forest is a territory in which they grow raspberries, blueberries, redcurrants, chestnuts, or the \"shiitake\" variety of mushrooms. Montes de Couso has been recognised as an example of good management, appearing in the UN ICCA register and has received the IRGADE award for the promotion of the Galician language.<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54085571825_23a66f0880_k.jpg\" alt=\"Toxo, more than a plant (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    Toxo, more than a plant (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>European Project: 'Art Living Lab for Sustainability'.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tierra Com\u00fan' is part of the European project 'Art Living Lab for Sustainability', funded by the European Union's 'Creative Europe' programme and coordinated by Concomitentes together with the European partners 'De Nieuwe Opdrachtgevers' and 'La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Nouveaux Commanditaires'; and the University of Santiago de Compostela.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The project's challenge is to address three community management mechanisms: that of the mountain with 'Tierra Com\u00fan' (Monte Vecinal de Couso, Galicia, Spain); clay with 'Clay Commons' (Boom, Flanders, Belgium); and water with 'Water Commons' (Haute Jura Regional Natural Park, France), through participatory processes in these territories, which will result in three works of art that respond to the needs of these communities and territories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Concomitentes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Concomitentes is a cultural association - promoted by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, the founding patron and strategic ally of the project - that promotes the production of works of art connected to their social environment. The project invites groups from civil society - the comitentes - to become the citizen promoters of these works that respond to a need that arises in the immediate context of these collectives.<\/p>\n<p>Concomitentes is present in the territory through mediators who seek to ensure that everyone involved in the project is satisfied with the resulting work. This work takes the format that best suits the commission, measuring its value according to the use and relevance given to it by the citizens themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Concomitentes is based on the methodology developed in 1990 by the artist Fran\u00e7ois Hers, which over the last 25 years has had an enormous social and cultural impact, with more than 500 projects in various European countries, including France, Belgium, Germany and Italy. In Spain, Concomitentes is currently developing nine concomitances in Galicia, Madrid, Catalonia, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla y Le\u00f3n and Extremadura.<\/p>\n<figure data-ratio=\"auto\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54085359173_74c4e75329_k.jpg\" alt=\"The Ritual also included a flyer informing about the whole process. (c) Andreia Iglesias\"><figcaption>\n    The Ritual also included a flyer informing about the whole process. (c) Andreia Iglesias  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>CO-CREATORS OF THE RITUAL:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Natalia Balseiro, Xos\u00e9 Ant\u00f3n Ara\u00faxo, Susana S\u00e1iz Medinger, Iria Enr\u00edquez Bland\u00f3n, Pilar Taladriz Cobas, Luis Alonso Bacigalupe, Paloma Amigo Garc\u00eda, Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez Gallego, Manuel Villot Pascual, Jes\u00fas Rodr\u00edguez Dieguez, Mar\u00eda Lemos Cerqueira, Elena G\u00f3mez Dahlgren, Jose Manuel Lago, Basilio Calzado, Mar\u00eda Dolores Gonz\u00e1lez Alonso, Mercedes Pe\u00f3n, Luis Enrique Correa Pi\u00f1erro (Caruncho), Alba Herranz Pazos, Mar Herranz Pazos, Carmen Villanueva Rey, Paula Pi\u00f1eiro Gonz\u00e1lez, Ruth Comesa\u00f1a Granja, Montse Salgueiro Varela, Lucila Rial Prado, Sara Gonz\u00e1lez L\u00f3pez, Patricia L\u00f3pez Palmas, Xoaqu\u00edn de Acosta Beiras, Pepe Re\u00f1ones Rodr\u00edguez, Emilio Dios, Paco Le\u00f3n, Suso Alonso Santos, Jose Alonso Santos, Jose Manuel Riob\u00f3 Hermida, Marcos Castro Gonz\u00e1lez, H\u00e9ctor Alfaro, Olivia Dawod Molinos, Adri\u00e1n Alonso Docampo, Sheila Ribero Rodr\u00edguez, Francisco Javier Alonso, Jose Antonio Herbida P\u00e9rez, Fabio Duran Dios, Nicolas Abaldes, Jes\u00e9s Abraldes P\u00e9rez, Juan Ra\u00fal Hern\u00e1ndez Cuevas and Andrea G\u00f3mez Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n<p>All the photos are by Andreia Iglesias, whom we thank for her dedication and her eye for bringing us these great little visual stories.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<ul>\n<li>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-10.43.46-2-2.jpeg\">    <\/li>\n<li>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-10.43.46-3-2.jpeg\">    <\/li>\n<li>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-image-2024-11-15-at-10.43.46-4-2.jpeg\">    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Le en galego aqu\u00ed) Este proyecto de arte surge dentro del marco del proyecto Terra Com\u00fan de Concomitentes con la mediaci\u00f3n de la investigadora y curadora cultural Natalia Balseiro y [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diario"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Y fuimos monte. 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