The teito huts hold time within their materials. Stone, wood, and broom grass speak of ways of life connected to the mountains and of a relationship with the land grounded in care, shared use, and the transmission of knowledge. In the work of Mónica Armantina (Oviedo, 1997), photography becomes a way of listening to these traces and attending to the stories inscribed in matter. A photographer, writer, and self-taught researcher, Armantina has developed a practice centred on the relationship between word and image, as well as on experimentation with nineteenth-century handcrafted photographic techniques.

The works presented at the Biennial form part of Leer la cabaña (Reading the Hut), a project developed in collaboration with the Escuela de Teitáu. Through analogue photography, cyanotypes, and reusable materials associated with andechas (traditional forms of communal labour), the artist documents and celebrates the collective processes involved in the restoration of Asturian teitos.