During her third stage in San Pedro Fiz de Vilar, as part of the final process before La Quema [The Burning] in October 2024, Del Rivero did a series of assemblage-diaries for 23 days straight. Diarios (Diaries) are small-format pieces, part of Elena Del Rivero’s imaginary realm, and explore an intimate aspect of recording the everyday through collage and attaching objects found on her morning walks, along with various materials given her by village residents.
The artist also includes craft paper as the support, here produced in two places: the Molí de Capellades (Barcelona) and Dieu Donné Papermill (New York). Her characteristic pearls are interwoven with these objects as a feature present in all her installations, whether in Galicia, on the walls and gratings of Centre d’Art La Capella or in the gardens at the Teatre Grec, stitching together connections between the various sites and her work.
This diary material is the result of an exercise in observation that is transformed into an affective archive, condensing the ethics of care, attention to the residual and the intersection between memory, territory and contemporary creation. At the same time, the work dialogues with the library at the Museu Tàpies, with its vestiges of proto-art nouveau architecture that persist in rewriting the past.
Extramural is a project led by the Museu Tàpies in coordination and exchange with various creators, structures, and institutions. It envisions the city of Barcelona as a space for reflection and dialogue, as well as for articulating and intervening in public space and the environment.
Artist Elena del Rivero and curator Mateo Feijóo are the guests of this edition of the Extramural project, promoted by the Museu Tàpies in collaboration with the Festival Grec Barcelona, Eina Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art, the Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi, Centre d’Art La Capella, Galeria Senda, Loop Festival, Mescladís, and Tantàgora.
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