Meeting Point

In the context of the exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Perpetual Movement of the Wall, the Museu Tàpies presents a public enlivening of the research process developed by Mauricio Sierra through conversations with various individuals who either work in the museum or visit it.

Opening up this process represents an invitation to place the body inside the exhibition space and experience varied manners of perception. The format combines mechanisms for artistic mediation and performance, and will be open to the participation of any person visiting the museum during designated opening times.

The proposal is founded on the idea that encounter activates movement, arouses murmurs, activates other rhythms and makes pauses possible, along with necessary relief and rest periods. In this regard, Sierra proposes to work on the basis of the collective gestures that bodies produce within museum spaces, understanding the museum as a site of relation and conversation. Through these gestures of approximation, the research project delves into the appearance of subtle gestures and forms of shared presence, rehearsing the museum as a meeting point influenced by everyday relationships, where many actors coincide, and where spaces for listening and exchange might be created. In this way, the proposal pursues an existing line of work focused on experiencing ways of being together and collectively inhabiting spaces.

Mauricio Sierra is a researcher, performer, collaborative playwright and director, assistant director and mediator. His practice addresses the collective body as ongoing support and object of study, as well as a possibility for destabilisation and basis of research. He has worked on projects in theatre, dance, performance, cinema and museography in Colombia, Spain and England. He develops processes with professional and academic groups in the performing arts where, through contemporary forms of communication, and with particular attention to non-conventional spaces, he explores the possibilities of design, reception and participation in artistic experiences.

Four people observe Marró i ocre  [Brown and ochre] (1959), by Antoni Tàpies, at Sala Gaspar, 1960. Personal Archive of Antoni Tàpies.