Biel Llinàs
Lleixes i mòmies (o traçar una lletra per poder tallar l’ombra) [Shelves and Mummies (or tracing a letter to be able to cut the shadow)] focuses on the corners and on the traces on the ceilings, floors, and walls of La Seca to capture the latency of a library that never came into existence. Previously refurbished to serve as a work area, bookshop, and reading room, what is now known as La Seca Space of the Fundació Brossa and still offers clues to what has never been read: poetry collections, anthologies, documents, or absent novels, and all the ‘mummies’ that ought to appear – the term used for the object, card, or marker that occupies the gap left on a shelf when a book is removed. Lleixes i mòmies [Shelves and Mummies] thus springs from the desire to make language resonate in the exhibition space and to propose its potential reading as a palimpsest: through painterly and choreographic gestures, sound archives, and documentary records, the works and activations in the show will conjure, within the room’s architecture, their possible narratives. Over the month that the exhibition remains open, the space will also host gatherings to collectivize silent and silenced readings, share fables, and relate to one another through quotations.
This exhibition is the result of research carried out Helena Laguna, Biel Llinàs and Mireia Molina Costa, within the framework of the Programa d’Investigació Curatorial (PIC) 2025, a program that supports the creation, research, and artistic curation of the Fundació Brossa – Centre de les Arts Lliures and the Sala d’Art Jove of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Biel Llinàs
Lleixes i mòmies (o traçar una lletra per poder tallar l’ombra) [Shelves and Mummies (or tracing a letter to be able to cut the shadow)] focuses on the corners and on the traces on the ceilings, floors, and walls of La Seca to capture the latency of a library that never came into existence. Previously refurbished to serve as a work area, bookshop, and reading room, what is now known as La Seca Space of the Fundació Brossa and still offers clues to what has never been read: poetry collections, anthologies, documents, or absent novels, and all the ‘mummies’ that ought to appear – the term used for the object, card, or marker that occupies the gap left on a shelf when a book is removed. Lleixes i mòmies [Shelves and Mummies] thus springs from the desire to make language resonate in the exhibition space and to propose its potential reading as a palimpsest: through painterly and choreographic gestures, sound archives, and documentary records, the works and activations in the show will conjure, within the room’s architecture, their possible narratives. Over the month that the exhibition remains open, the space will also host gatherings to collectivize silent and silenced readings, share fables, and relate to one another through quotations.
This exhibition is the result of research carried out Helena Laguna, Biel Llinàs and Mireia Molina Costa, within the framework of the Programa d’Investigació Curatorial (PIC) 2025, a program that supports the creation, research, and artistic curation of the Fundació Brossa – Centre de les Arts Lliures and the Sala d’Art Jove of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
