Bill Viola - Ocean Without a Shore

Bill Viola gives us the essence of the human being, what defines us, and the space that surrounds the piece leads us to the origins of architecture: the material used to build this interior is a system of pressed, unbaked earth, a thousand-year-old technique recovered to create a space with a sober, natural and pure atmosphere, where the artistic installation can be displayed in all its solemnity. When you enter this space as a spectator, you come into a dark room, dominated by three large screens.

A former agricultural space was renovated for this project, transformed using a construction system that was the result of a joint research project by Sorigué and Fetdeterra. Consequently, the earth from this same gravel bed was used to build the walls and, for the first time, a flat roof with a single light, made of compacted and reinforced earth. The additive-free mixture includes a bi-product of the company’s production process, the slurry left after washing the sand and gravel.