# La Pell de la Terra
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> **2020/2021** · Page updated on 29.04.2026 · Source file of: [La Pell de la Terra \| Marco Noris — Visual artist](https://marconoris.com/en/la-pell-de-la-terra/) · #projects #pells #Farrera #walking #mountain #Terra #philosophyOfLand #art #painting #video
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La pell de la terra in the hermitage of Santa Maria de la Serra, Farrera (Lleida, Spain). The installation has been exhibited between 2021 and 2025.
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-farrera-01.jpg|Santa Maria de la Serra]]
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-farrera-02.jpg|Santa Maria de la Serra]]
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-farrera-04.jpg|Santa Maria de la Serra]]
Replacing traditional Christian iconography, these abstract paintings evoking paths, earth, and stone are configured as *“post-historical altarpieces”* that transform former places of worship into temples devoted to a sacredness that is both new and ancient —inclusive, universal, and non-denominational— placing the earth and the mountain at the center of the visitor’s inner experience.
This installation is configured as a kind of post-historical altarpiece that replaces traditional Christian iconography with a large abstract painting that refers to paths, earth, and stone, thus highlighting the sacred component of walking and the mountain.
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-farrera-07.jpg|Santa Maria de la Serra]]
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![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/pelldelaterra-farrera1.jpg|Santa Maria de la Serra]]
In the bare sobriety of the hermitage, a powerful dialogue is set in motion between the [[../../Lecturas/Poesia/Lugar|place]] and the work, illuminated exclusively by the natural light that enters from the east through the small windows of the apse. There is a very special moment after dawn, when the first morning sun appears from behind the [[../../Themarium/Montaña/Montaña|mountain]] —these days, right behind Pic de Màniga— and casts its first ray through the apse window of the hermitage of [[../../Territorium/Farrera|Farrera]]: in the silence broken only by the symphonic singing of birds, we witness the constant unfolding of life tinting the central panel of the altarpiece with [[../../Fragmentarium/Luz|light]].
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-farrera-03.jpg|Santa Maria de la Serra]]
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-farrera-05.jpg|Santa Maria de la Serra]]
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-farrera-06.jpg|Santa Maria de la Serra]]
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> - El text de Josep Mañà, [[../_critica/Mañà - 2022 - La Pell - en|La Pell]]
> - [[../../Libellus/_news/2021/2021-05-15 - La pell de la terra|”La pell de la terra” en la ermita de Santa Maria de la Serra]]%%
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Festival [[../../Ecosistema/Errant]], Sant Feliu de Barruera. Curated by Jesús Vilamajó. Photos: Jesús Vilamajó and Marco Noris
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-barruera-01.jpg|Sant Feliu de Barruera]]
> [!quote] Bernat Puigtobella
> El tapís-retaule que ha instal·lat a l’església de Sant Feliu és la substantació de la terra sobre el paper, un exercici de geotaxidèrmia que s’intergra perfectament a l’absis de pedra del romànic. És com si hagués escorxat la pell de la terra per traslladar-la sobe el paper. No és casual que el títol de la peça sigui justament *Pells*.
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> - [[../_prensa-y-medios/2020 - Puigtobella - Rodolo placentós pel segle XI - en|«Rodolo placentós pel segle XI»]]. Extracte de l'article de Núvol [Errant per l'Alta Ribagorça](https://www.nuvol.com/art/errant-per-alta-ribagorca-122035) de Bernat Puigtobella
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-barruera-00.jpg|Sant Feliu de Barruera]]
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-barruera-03.jpg|Sant Feliu de Barruera]]
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-barruera-05.jpg|Sant Feliu de Barruera]]
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-barruera-06.jpg|Sant Feliu de Barruera]]
In these images, my installation in the Romanesque church of Sant Feliu de Barruera, presented as part of the festival *Errant, Itineraries of Art and Thought 2020*, September 2020.
*“Skins”* originates in the journey I made from [[../../Territorium/Barcelona|Barcelona]] to the CAN in [[../../Territorium/Farrera|Farrera]], in Pallars Sobirà. The installation in Sant Feliu de Barruera is configured as a kind of altarpiece that replaces traditional Christian iconography with a large [[../../Arte/Pintura|abstract painting]] that evokes paths, earth, and stone, thus highlighting the sacred dimension of [[../../Themarium/Caminar/Caminar|walking]] and the [[../../Themarium/Montaña/Montaña|mountain]]. At once imposing and discreet, the intervention foregrounds the spirituality and sacredness of the [[../../Lecturas/Poesia/Lugar|place]], transforming the old church into a contemporary place of worship: universal, non-religious, and non-denominational.
![[../images/projects/la-pell-de-la-terra/2021-barruera-02.jpg|Sant Feliu de Barruera]]
ERRANT are itineraries of [[../../Arte/Arte|art]] and thought, in which word and image—in their most radical, experimental, and contemporary expressions—enter into dialogue with the landscape, architectural, historical, and industrial heritage of the region of [[../../Territorium/Lleida|Lleida]].