(It’s a shame that concrete doesn’t burn)

Based on artistic research carried out as part of the Desplazamenduak / Desplazamientos #1 grant, Raquel Meyers has constructed a critical artefact in the form of an expanded essay entitled Es una pena que el hormigón no arda (It’s a shame concrete doesn’t burn), set in the cities of Palma and Irun.

An emotional and political archaeology of late capitalism: tourism, cement, expulsion, precariousness, algorithms and social strata. A collage of memory, archive, teletext and urban planning that repels rather than welcomes.

Publisher: Bitamine Kultur Elkartea
Editorial director: Helga Massetani Piemonte
Author: Raquel Meyers
Back cover text: Aleli Mirelman
Translations: Belen Pikabea Loinaz
Design and layout: Estudio Moriskette
ISBN 978-84-09-74979-9
Legal deposit: LG D 00786-2025
Guipúzcoa, Basque Country
2025