Carla Motis and Vignesh Melwani. To invoke conflict

To invoke the gap, or the crack, the flaw, the difference, the penalized, the incongruity, the dissonance, the disappointment, the buried root, the shameful. To invoke conflict. But to do so as a window onto a truth, onto a dogma that suffocates, excludes, and blinds.

Truth, an interstice within the normative and hegemonic narrative, is interpreted through voice, guitar, rhythm, dance, movement, words, matter, sounds, and tradition. A theatrical attempt to materialize each truth, which is not singular but rather the truth of each individual.

With this newly created staging, the Barcelona-based musical duo offers us a pseudo-epistemological concert/recital/performance that reinterprets this crack by Antoni Tàpies, and from chairs that the duo’s singer himself, during his student years at Pompeu Fabra University, worked on as a guide and host.

Carla Motis and Vignesh Melwani are a Barcelona-based guitar and vocal duo who, since forming in 2019, have performed over fifty concerts throughout Catalonia, as well as in Madrid and Valencia. Over the years, they have reinterpretated songs from a wide range of musical styles and cultures, adopting a minimalist and eclectic sound where fusion is not sought after but inherent and inevitable. While they have always infused their repertoire with critical, feminist, and queer perspectives, this is the first time they have presented original compositions created from this perspective through the notion of truth.

Series “The Chairs of Tàpies” are curated by Judith Barnés.