Those Who Can Remember the Future. A series of artistic-poetic actions, part of the Blai Bonet Year

The Museu Tàpies joins the commemoration of the Blai Bonet Year, participating in the series of artistic-poetic actions entitled Those Who Can Remember the Future, with the collaboration of the Museu Picasso and the Fundació Joan Miró as well.

Blai Bonet was a personal friend of both Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies. He explored the work of Pablo Picasso on various occasions, especially in the catalogue of the first Erotic Picasso exhibition in Barcelona. Drawing from this relationship, and as part of the commemoration of the centenary of the birth of this writer from Santanyí, the series Those Who Can Remember the Future explores the relationship between poetry and art, examining how the word combines with other disciplines, such as dance, music and performance, with a particular interest in researching the life of the gaze.

The session hosted by the Museu Tàpies takes as its title Here Pain is Made of Sweet Iron, and features the participation of the poets Carme Alegre, Júlia Febrer and Sergi Olivet, who join the dancer Mar Aguiló. As a kind of triptych, the three young poets and the dancer come into dialogue with the space and contents of the exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Perpetual Movement of the Wall, which recently could be visited at the Museu Tàpies. The voices of Carme Alegre, Júlia Febrer and Sergi Olivet, and the weaving elegance of Mar Aguiló’s steps, offer a unique way to experience the exhibition space.

This activity has been developed jointly with the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, organiser of the entire series.

Mar Aguiló

Born in Palma, Aguiló is a choreographer, dancer and artistic director. She trained at the École Atelier Rudra Béjart, Switzerland, and for the past sixteen years has performed with Spain’s Compañía Nacional de Danza, working with choreographers such as William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Johan Inger and Mats Ek.

As a creator, she has developed projects that explore the hybridisation of languages and the dialogue between dance and architectural and museum spaces. In this vein of work, she has collaborated with institutions such as Museo del Prado, Fundació Joan Miró, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and MACBA. Featured projects include Stella, Swan and Swans. She currently complements her career at the Compañía Nacional de Danza with the direction of the Palma Dansa festival.

Carme Alegre

Born in the district of L’Horta Nord (Valencia Region), Alegre studied English Philology at the University of València, and has a Master’s degree in Literary Theory from the University of Barcelona. In 2023 she was a nominee for the Salvador Iborra Young Poetry prize, and later participated in the anthology Solstici d’estiu released by Joves Poetes de la Mediterrània. Strappo seguit de Pare Aforístic o Galatea a la paret was her first book. Alegre makes a living teaching the past continuous and irregular verbs ad infinitum at an Official Language School.

Sergi Olivet

Born in Tarragona, Olivet has a degree in Literary Studies and is currently studying Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. In the field of music, he has created his own rap project under the name XTerra, releasing the EP La X del Mapa. He has twice been nominated for the Salvador Iborra Poetry Competition (2023 and 2025), and for many years has participated actively in politically-engaged venues, initiating cultural activities in Tarragona and Barcelona.

Júlia Febrer

Born in Sant Joan, Mallorca, Febrer understands poetry as a way to be in the world and read the world. This relationship gives rise to texts, photography and artistic installations. She has been the coordinator of Viure Poèticament (Manacor, 2025), a thematic series on the relationship between literature and other disciplines. Her poetry book Arrel inoïda (Adia, 2025) was awarded the Ciutat de Manacor Miquel Àngel Riera Prize. This upcoming autumn she will release Llum de cendra (Viena, 2026), after having won the Martí Dot Prize in Sant Feliu de Llobregat.

Febrer currently explores the tension between image and word, combining university teaching in Literature and Cinema (University of Barcelona) with the management of the Damià Huguet photographic archive (on a Documentary Collection Administration Grant from the Mallorca Literària Foundation).