In 2003, one of Europe’s most renowned surfing waves disappeared from the Basque coast near the town of Mundaka, Spain. The culprit? The local shipyard, whose nearby dredging transformed the interaction between sandbank and sediment, coast and current, which had sustained a big-wave ecosystem and a thriving leisure economy. Although ocean dynamics and stricter regulation have since seen the return of the wave, also known as Mundaka, many other globally significant surf breaks have been irrevocably stilled by human activity. Cooking Sections’ exhibition “Waves Lost at Sea” at Centro Botín in Santander, reviewed by Latitudes’ Max Andrews in the January issue of Artforum, reads as a kind of requiem for eleven of them.

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