A Hatch in the Void

If a work of art fails to harness the magic in things themselves, if it uses objects only to make them mean something, it has wasted one of its greatest possibilities. When we take an object and make it mean something, what we are doing is confirming ourselves. We are confirming our own concepts of who we are and what the world is. But allowing things to be seen as what they are offers a more open and fertile ground. After all, the unknown is pure adventure.

As part of the exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Imagination of the World, the Museu Tàpies has invited Marc Caellas to perform four activations of the exhibition room to give a new life and a new dimension to the materials presented in it, with the aim of rethinking them.

Activations

· 25.03.2025 – The Background of Things. 

Marc Caellas, born in Barcelona, is an artist who works with writing, theatre, performance and curation in hybrid projects that develop into books, plays, installations or public programmes and festivals.

His two most recently published books are Notas de suicidio (La Uña Rota, 2022) and Dos hombres que caminan (Ediciones Menguantes, 2022), the latter written in collaboration with Esteban Feune de Colombi. His previous works include Carcelona (Melusina, 2011), Caracaos (Melusina, 2015), Drogotá (Planeta, 2017), Neuros Aires (Libros del Zorzal, 2020) and Teatro del bueno (Teatron.Tinta, 2015).

He has participated in numerous national and international literature and performing arts festivals, including: Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá, Festival de Palco e Rúa de Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Bienal do Livro de São Paulo, FILBA (Buenos Aires), Festival Estival (San Martín de los Andes, Argentina), FIT de Cádiz, TNT Festival (Terrassa), IDEM Casa Encendida Festival (Madrid), Escenas do Cambio Festival (Santiago de Compostela), Kosmopolis Festival at CCCB (Barcelona), Festival de las Ideas (Madrid), Cuéntalo Festival (Logroño), Nus Festival (Barcelona), Open Heart Festival (Lanzarote), Meet You (Valladolid) and WIM (Frías, Burgos), among others.

He was resident artist at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque (Madrid), Tokyo Arts and Space, Nau Côclea (Saus, Girona) and Can Timoner (Mallorca).

He has twice been awarded the Ministry of Culture’s grants for literary creation, received Iberescena grants for theatrical co-production and was a finalist for the BBVA Award for the best play with Suicide Notes.

He has taught courses on creative writing, theatre creation and new dramaturgy at the Museo Universitario del Chopo, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque, University of Barcelona, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad de los Andes and Universidad del Atlántico.