València - Museum of the city. April to July 2019 (extended to september)

Comission - Luis Arciniega García

Technical Coordination - Rubén Pacheco Díaz

Research and Documentation - Luis Arciniega García, Laura Bolinches Martínez, Óscar Calvé Mascarell, Manuel Carreres Rodríguez, Susana Climent Viguer, Desirée Juliana Colomer and Rubén Pacheco Díaz

Expository Design - Espirelius

Production - Rótulos Perelló

Assembly - Santiandres

Hydraulic engineering exerts a huge influence on human lives and has generated a wealth of architectural, technological, cultural and social heritage through its evocative capacity and transgression of the ordinary. Under the title 'Rius per l’aire. Aqüeductes de la Comunitat Valenciana' ('Rivers in the Air. Aqueducts in the Valencian Community'), this exhibition looks at aqueducts in the Valencian Community up until the mid-nineteenth century, when the modern supply network began to provide water to all settlements. Arcuationes, or aqueducts raised up on keystone arches, a lighter alternative to solid walls that have crossed huge orographic obstacles since Antiquity, are the protagonists of this project.

The aim is not to establish an exhaustive inventory of our hydraulic network, but rather to highlight the arcades of the most significant aqueducts in the Valencian Community. Old and modern photographs, plans and maps, etchings, models and other audiovisual materials show how water travelled through over thirty of the region’s towns and cities, as well as its artistic representation through a wide range of media, including plates, coins, notes, engravings, and even the traditional monuments created then burnt in Valencia, fallas. All of this is presented with a view to emphasising the rich cultural heritage of water. This mark of the Valencian region’s identity is visible from its capital city, as reflected in its early Christian emblem and nickname, Epidrapolis, Greek for ‘city founded on the waters’, to its most remote spots, as hydraulic engineering bears a major influence on our scenery, as well as our social and economic history.

Opening hours:
Monday–Saturday 10 a.m.–7 p.m.
Sunday and public holidays 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Itinerancy:

La Pobla de Vallbona
La Casa Gran. 22 November 2019 to 22 January 2020
 Poster

Xàtiva
Museu de Belles Arts / Casa de Cultura. 28 October 13 December 2020
 Poster

Asp
Museo Histórico de Aspe / Teatro Wagner. 25 July to 21 September 2021
 Poster

Crevillent
Casa Municipal de Cultura José Candela Lledó. 2 February 2022 to 3 March 2022
 Poster