Book Release: Waves Lost at Sea, Las Olas Perdidas

A new book by Cooking Sections, Wave Lost at Sea, Las Olas Perdidas, was published in January.

Co-published by Spector Books and Fundación Botín, the book appears in conjunction with Cooking Sections’ exhibition of the same name which runs at Centro Botín, Santander, Spain, from October 2025 to February 2026.

Mari Margil, Executive Director of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER), contributed an essay to the book titled “Protecting the Rights of Nature: A Cultural and Legal Movement.”

Cooking Sections - a partner organization of CDER - investigates the systems that shape the world through food, tracing the spatial, ecological, and political legacies of extractivism. Using site-responsive installations, performances, and video, their practice confronts the overlapping boundaries of art, architecture, ecology, and geopolitics. Founded by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, Cooking Sections uses food as both a lens and a tool to trace the metabolic relations behind industrialized food systems. Since 2015, they run CLIMAVORE, a long-term, site-responsive project, exploring how to eat as humans change climates and how to metabolize climate breakdown.

Waves Lost at Sea, traverses legal fictions, queer ecologies, disappearing landscapes, multispecies entanglements, and speculative tastes. Through these layered investigations, the book invites readers to rethink food cultures and agricultural imaginaries—decentering humans at both microscopic and planetary scales.

Learn more about the book, and how to purchase, here.