Un mosaico de lo común. La experiencia comunitaria de Elena del Rivero [A Mosaic of the Commonplace: The Communitarian Experience of Elena del Rivero] is an installation at the historic sacristy of Centre d’Art La Capella, now known as Espai Oficina. The installation invites us on a visual tour through photographs documenting the artist’s experience living with the community of San Pedro Fiz de Vilar, from which a kind of photographic collage has been developed. Elena del Rivero portrays rural Galicia—its millenary stones, the mist, farmers’ hands, animals—as part of a collective fabric that prioritises the communitarian over the individual. Her approach is sensitive, affective and respectful, creating a sort of visual mosaic manifesting ancestral life experiences, postulating a new kind of imagination derived from community.
To accomplish this, Elena del Rivero relies on the technical reproducibility of analogue cameras like Hasselblad and Rolleicord, whose images are combined with others taken with simple Holga or Fujifilm X-Pro-2 cameras, enabling her to diffuse the scenes to accentuate the poetic character of the images. In this way, the work goes beyond the process of documentary photography itself to root itself in a way of inhabiting the territory, where art and life are understood from a relational and affective perspective.
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.
Centre d’Art La Capella
Carrer Hospital, 56, Barcelona
8.07 – 14.09.2025
Tuesday to Saturday from 12 noon to 8 pm; Sunday from 11 am to 2 pm
