Mur mur i zo

Mur mur i zo* is a kinetic and poetic exploration of the exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Perpetual Movement of the Wall, held at the Museu Tàpies. This collaborative research project on movement and stasis has been developed between two artists from different disciplines, dance (Georgia Vardarou) and the visual arts and poetry (Nathalie Karagiannis). The project is grounded on three core concepts: the repetition of the wall motif in the work of Tàpies and its implications, the relationship between body and memory (memory as a dead archive or creative vitality) and interaction between these two creators.

Presented at the Museu Tàpies, this exploration is the result of the first edition of the research residency Archival Body, a collaborative project between the Museu Tàpies and Graner – Centre de creació de dansa i arts vives.

* The title of the project is the transliteration into Latin characters of a Greek verb meaning ‘murmur’. Placed in this format, it repeats the Catalan word mur, meaning ‘wall’, as well as zo, the Greek word for ‘live’.

Georgia Vardarou graduated from the National School of Dance (Κ.Σ.Ο.Τ.) in Greece and then from P.A.R.T.S., in Belgium. As a professional dancer she has worked with Salva Sanchis, Marc Vanrunxt and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, among others. As a choreographer she is interested in personal movement, the content it carries and intersubjectivity between the observer and the dancer in perception of the dance. Her most recent pieces have been seen at STUK (Leuven), Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona), KC NONA (Antwerp), Corso-Berchem (Belgium), Spider Festival (Slovenia) and December Dance (Bruges). Vardarou is a member of the teaching staff at Centre Superior d’Art Dramàtic Eòlia. Her work is produced by kunst/werk.

Nathalie Karagiannis works in writing, drawing and installation. She has degrees in Public Law (Paris I) and Political Science (Sciences Po Paris), and did a doctorate in Social and Political Theory from EUI in Florence. Her most recent exhibitions are Three Breaths of Fresh Air (Islahane Museum, 2025), Vent (La Pahissa del Marquet, 2025) and Dago (Hadjmihali Museum, 2025). She is the curator of Art and Crisis at the CCCB (2013), the Festival SUD de Poesia at the Reial Cercle Artístic deBarcelona (2015), Der Blinde Fleck at Warburg Haus (2019) and Elogio del riesgo and Vallas at La Fusteria (2023). She has published seven books, is the editor of three volumes of writing, and has written articles on democracy, debt, solidarity and other questions related to social and political theory.