"Art duo Cooking Sections bring their immersive, environmental practice to Centro Botín in Santander with a stirring audio-visual exploration of lost waves. Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe are known for deeply researched projects that sometimes lead to tangible change. In 2020, they prompted Tate to remove farmed salmon from its menu, while their Ministry of Sewers at the 2025 Folkestone Triennial invited the public to submit official complaints about sea pollution."
""There is a lot of activism happening in the region," says Pascual. "We're offering the work as a platform for conversations to grow." They were invited by Centro Botín to be part of a 30-year programme that has offered residencies and grants to artists such as Tacita Dean and Mona Hatoum. "We wanted someone who could look at this beautiful, picturesque bay through a more critical lens," says the exhibition curator Bárbara Rodríguez,"
Cooking Sections present Waves Lost at Sea at Centro Botín in Santander, an immersive audio-visual project about lost waves and intertidal zones. Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe base their practice on deep research and collaboration with scientists, including biologists and engineers from University de Cantabria's GeoOcean project. Their work has produced tangible change, such as prompting Tate to remove farmed salmon and inviting public complaints about sea pollution. The exhibition connects habitat loss, legal ambiguity, dredging and coastal development to disappearing surf waves and seeks to foster local activism and community conversation.
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