The ancestral nine waves ritual at A Lanzada inspires a photographic exploration of fertility, waiting, and hope. 🌊✨

Artist Elo Vázquez presents the exhibition "Nina Waves" within the cultural programme of Centre Cívic Can Basté.

🎨 Exposició «Nina Waves»

📅 From 17 September to 7 November 2026

🕐 Mondays from 16:00 to 21:30; Tuesday to Friday from 9:30 to 14:00 and 16:00 to 21:30; Saturdays from 10:30 to 14:00 and 16:30 to 20:00

📍 Centre Cívic Can Basté, Barcelona

🎟️ Free admission

📖 A visual account of infertility and hope

During the night of the last Saturday of August, at A Lanzada beach (Galicia), women wishing to become pregnant enter the sea to let nine waves break over their bellies. This fertility ritual turns sea water and wave movement into a symbol of renewal, life, and hope.

Drawing from this ritual, "Nine Waves" becomes an intimate narrative about the artist's years of infertility, searching, waiting, ritual, and uncertainty, told from a luminous and hopeful outlook. The project breaks the silence surrounding a taboo topic that has historically been scarcely addressed, defined by the World Health Organization as the inability to achieve pregnancy after twelve months of trying.

The work also brings visibility to an urgent future reality: estimates suggest that by 2050, 41% of men will be infertile, requiring assisted reproductive techniques.

🎨 Photography at Can Basté

This exhibition is linked to the Residència Fotogràfica de Can Basté, a dedicated space supporting and showcasing visual arts and photography in Barcelona.

✨ An intimate and luminous artistic reflection on the human journey of fertility.