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Extramurs is an artistic project by the Tàpies Museum that conceives the city as a space for intervention and mediation. With a multidisciplinary and plural approach, it is based on three major conceptual axes: inter-institutional dialogue, dialogue with public space and dialogue with the environment.
Elena del Rivero is the artist invited to participate in the artistic project Extramurs 2025, curated by Mateo Feijóo. This project unfolds from an intense work of research and collaborative production around the burning of the artist's early works as a gesture of healing. Thus, this edition delves into the connections between historical and personal memory, interurban narratives in dialogue with the environment and contemporary artistic practices, and highlights, once again, the potential of art as a vehicle for reflection and social change.
La Quema is based on an initial action developed in a Galician town in the region of A Baixa Límia, within the framework of the actions promoted by A Casa do Pozo. This process was documented through images and sound recordings that have been key in the configuration of the current project. The works were burned in October 2024, after having been exhibited in houses and spaces in the town. This action explores themes such as symbolic destruction, purification and renewal, elements that are articulated in dialogue with the urban and architectural spaces that will be intervened in Barcelona.
The installations conceived by Del Rivero as part of the Extramurs project, in collaboration with students from EINA, the Barcelona University Center for Design and Art, will be displayed on the facade and inside the Tàpies Museum, the La Capella Art Center, the Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi, the gardens of the Teatre Grec, Galeria Senda and Loop Barcelona, among others. The exhibition will include photographs, collages, objects and a luminous sign. The cartography of these intervened spaces will invite reflection on the resilience of human and social structures, as well as on the dialogue between past and present, highlighting the tensions and continuities that define history in the construction of the contemporary city.
The public program of La Quema will include the bell concert L’espai alliberat de Llorenç Barber, with the collaboration of students from ESMUC and the Barcelona Municipal Conservatory of Music. This concert will take place on July 8 at 8 p.m. as part of the Grec Festival, as the project's inaugural event. In addition, during the Loop Festival an audiovisual cycle will be screened that will include the screening of the film O carro e o home (1940) by Antonio Román and Xaquín Lorenzo, and a newly created documentary about La Quema, directed by Improfilms, co-producers of the audiovisual along with A Casa do Pozo and The Paraclete. The presentation of the documentary will be attended by anthropologist Cristiana Bastos.