Rafael Tormo leads workshop on DANA aftermath at Alaquàs Castle

The activity, part of the City Council's program, uses clay to reflect on the disaster's lasting impact.

Generic image of hands working with clay, with Mediterranean light.
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Generic image of hands working with clay, with Mediterranean light.

Artist Rafael Tormo Cuenca led the workshop “Deconstruction of the Unattainable” yesterday, Wednesday, October 21st, at Alaquàs Castle, an activity organized by the Alaquàs City Council to commemorate the second anniversary of the DANA.

The artistic proposal aims to approach the consequences of the DANA through contact with clay, listening to the material, and paying attention to the traces the disaster leaves in daily life. The workshop invited the public to pause and consider the material's weight, humidity, resistances, and cracks.
According to the author, “working with clay thus becomes a way of being affected by what happens in one's hands, as each gesture responds to a material that offers possibilities, but also imposes limits and alters the intentions of the person touching it.”
From this listening, the workshop approached the spectral: the absences, the memories, and the experiences that remain present even when they no longer have a visible form. The withdrawal of water and the cleaning of the streets after the disaster do not erase everything that happened, as marks persist in spaces, bodies, and relationships, as well as silences and questions that still lack words.
Based on information from the official source: Ajuntament d'Alaquàs (22/10/2026)