Waves lost at sea is a performative installation by Cooking Sections – an artist practice formed by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe – that traces the disappearance of eleven memorable, significant waves.

For centuries, coastal communities have learned to read waves: for navigation, nourishment, or surfing. Dredging, port expansion and coastal construction have reshaped shorelines and altered seabeds, causing certain waves to vanish across the globe: from Mundaka’s sandbar in the Cantabrian Sea to El Marsa’s phosphate port in Western Sahara. These natural entities sustained important human and more-than-human ecologies and communities. Their loss is not just the loss of a break, it is the loss of an ecological landscape and cultural history.

For this installation, the stories, rhythms, and patterns of eleven lost waves have been translated into a musical composition and a choreography involving eleven suspended springs that are activated by performers in a continuous loop. The gallery space becomes an ephemeral monument to the lost waves, updating the traditional human-centric idea of a monument through their ghostly presence.

We invite you to walk around, sit, listen, and feel how the waves moved and how they vanished, what remains, and what can still be protected.