NINGÚ M’ESTIMA (EN JOAN I LA TERESA)

1. The itinerary begins in a flat – third floor, flat two – at Carrer Alt de Pedrell, Barcelona, 62, in the Font d’en Fargues district in Horta, Barcelona. A narrow building in a private block without a lift, five storeys high and with a rooftop terrace featuring views across Barcelona.

I have lived in this flat with my mother and sister Carla for ten years.

2. When we enter the flat, there is a narrow, short hallway leading to the living room.

In the living room, there are just two pieces of furniture: the sofa and the TV. One of these pieces of furniture is a glass display case containing sentimental objects from travels and weddings; as well as other objects – such as glassware – used on special occasions.

When we open the other cabinet, we see all the family albums.

There is a red album with the title: “1985”. When we open it, on the first page there is a photograph of my grandparents (Joan and Teresa) together when they were younger, not yet limited by grandfather’s Alzheimer’s disease.

3. When we look around the completely square flat, we realise that the neighbourhood is located in the mountains and very quiet.

As we head towards the balcony opening from one of the flat’s three bedrooms and the living room, we notice the tranquillity mentioned above.

When we step onto the balcony – with panoramic views of Barcelona – I recommend facing the views and closing your eyes for a minute (listening to the birds) and thinking about all the things we have seen in the flat, which ultimately reminds us of all the experiences we have lived with our relatives; grandparents in this case.

4. We leave the balcony through the door to the living room and go to the door through which we entered the flat. When we leave the flat, we go down the stairs and head towards the grandparents’ home, four minutes from the house, 270 metres away. When we leave the building and look towards the sea, we will see a downward slope on the right-hand side called Carrer Davallada de Gallecs.

As we walk down on the left-hand pavement, and look at the wall on the right, we see the Arc Iris School – the primary school I attended.

5. If we carry on, we see we are on Carrer Arc Iris, and if we take a right we will see an alley – on Passeig d’Arc de Sant Martí – that we can only enter from this street and goes directly to my grandparents’ home. My grandparents’ house is the penultimate one from the bottom. A white house with the number nine, surrounded by plants.

My grandparents Joan and Teresa live here along with my aunt Estefanía, uncle Lluís and my other uncle Joan. A two-storey house with a yard surrounding the whole house. This is the domestic space of grandparents’ whose lives are limited by Alzheimer’s.

TRAVESSIES

The Travessies are cross-cutting, temporary paths; the lands we retrace to move from one point to another. Faced with the urgent need to question bodies and return them to the centre of artistic interventions, we propose drifting away, moving around the spaces we have already lived in, to move. We reexamine the concept of ‘Travesías’ to trace spheres of resonance that put the body in vibration; sound journeys that allow us to get lost and alter our course, now more than ever, within cities: stimulating the territories and turning them into a potential framework for experimentation.

Some of the winning artists from the Art Jove 2020 call bring us closer to their artistic projects through listening, guiding us on an unknown journey that opens up infinite paths of circulation and movement. The proposal is based on the desire to activate projects spilling from the “online” format, involving bodies actively and referring to the first lifting lockdown measure: walking alone at set hours of the day.

A proposal from the Art Jove 2020 mediation team: pli-é collective (Eva Paià, Marina Ribot Pallicer, Angelica Tognetti).