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.

The exhibition will be activated on 29 October at 18 h with the public program Unes balances a la mà i una pedra en Escorpí  [A set of scales in the hand and a stone in Scorpio].

The Curatorial Research Programme (P.I.C.) is the result of collaboration between the Sala d’Art Jove and the Centre de les Arts Lliures of the Fundació Joan Brossa.