The Chairs of Tàpies. Second Edition

The second edition of the action art series The Chairs of Tàpies, subtitled Tattooed Memories, embraces two lines of inquiry: memory and the body, drawing from the idea of the trace that leaves its mark, and the legacy on the skin, as if it were a scar. These two features, whose character draws from Tàpies, act as a narrative, making it possible to connect universes of the past with worlds of the present, thus creating a living archive of experiences, memories and identities.

Within this framework, the body is understood beyond its physicality; it is granted a symbolic sense which, as with skin, is a reflection of stories and experiences. In this way, each of these actions in the series makes it possible to explore how the body recollects, stores and transforms individual and collective experiences in physical and emotional memory, and how these memories emerge and communicate through performance and movement. By including the gesture, the series emphasises the fleeting presence of the body in time and space, and celebrates how recollections are upheld and updated through it, in continual reinterpretation of the present.

The set of nine sessions features a polyphony of expressive languages, where the voice and movement take on a new dimension, out of the express need to question corporeality. Bodies charged with stories and absences, weighted down; bodies imprisoned in what they have to be, what they want to be, in what they were; bodies that are not bodies, bodies that are only bodies, bodies calling out for bodies. The biography of the body.

The programme of the second edition of the action art series The Chairs of Tàpies, subtitled Tattooed Memories, has been curated by Judith Barnés.

Projected programme: 

27/3/25:  Fito Conesa

24/4/25: Laia Estruch

29/5/25: Matria Libre – Arte sin fronteras

26/6/25: Esther Ferrer

17/7/25: Benvenuto Chavajay

25/9/25: Joan Morey

30/10/25: Leonor Castro

27/11/25: Mireia Calafell

18/12/25: Mónica Valenciano

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