“Ecologies of Pause” is a collaborative program between art centers in the Euroregional area, promoting residencies for artistic research and creation focused on the image and its new narratives. The Fundación Casa Planas, Centre d’Art et de Photographie de Lectoure, 3C Calce Culture Contemporaine, and the Panoràmic festival work to strengthen the collective imagination and European cultural identity, with the support of the Euroregió Pirineus Mediterrània and local authorities. On this occasion, the projects of two artists are presented, reflecting on pause in the global context, its relationship with tourism, and its impact on territories and communities, exploring the tourism economy from everyday gestures to its global manifestations.

The photographic series Off Season focuses on the seemingly ordinary and empty world of holiday resorts in the low season. These environments, apparently unchanging, are sustained by the everyday gestures of those who come to clean and maintain them.Images of the workers are interspersed with portraits of a few tourists, spotted occasionally before the start of summer, moving through exteriors still deserted and strange. With this project, Nina Medioni opens herself to documentary, to prolonged time, to wandering, taking personal detours. Here, photography becomes a way of encountering others, as well as of finding one’s own place within occupied spaces — sometimes linked to personal history, and sometimes entirely unknown.

Entre Islas / Paisajes de Explotación is an artistic investigation tracing connections between the Caribbean and the Balearic Islands. The extractivist logic of tourism transformed both archipelagos, where hotel architecture, photography and thousands of postcards constructed a fictional narrative and landscape — a stage for desire, where the livable gives way to the profitable. Through the archive, voices and repetition, the project reveals how the “staging of illusion” in tourism is not only an aesthetic matter, but a political, economic and cultural operation that still shapes how we inhabit and represent these places.