Se’ns moren les plantes (“Our plants are dying”) is an itinerant sound piece by Marc Villanueva Mir and Xesca Salvà, presented as a walking tour with headphones through a natural setting. A walk that becomes a film without a camera: an immersive experience in which each audience member becomes the eyes and ears of an invisible movie that unfolds between their steps and the landscape.

The proposal is rooted in a clear idea: what we hear —and what we don’t— is a political matter. The project invites us to observe and listen to the forest from an altered perspective. What once seemed natural and familiar progressively transforms into a mysterious territory, filled with voices, stories, and sonic atmospheres that blend documentary, fiction, and imagination. We’ll hear about monstrous plants, looted seeds, vegetal meteorites, and alien encounters. The result is a collective hallucination that disrupts the conventional relationship between what we see and what we hear.

The piece is inspired by the perspective of the first European botanists who arrived in the Americas during colonial expeditions. The landscape, understood as a living archive, becomes here a science-fiction stage, a space of extraction and wonder, where nothing is quite what it seems. A sound device to question how we listen, what we consider natural, and which stories have been left out of the frame.