Unspeakable Magic

The third edition of the series A Hatch in the Void, conceived by the writer Marc Caellas for the exhibition Antoni Tàpies: The Imagination of the World, features the participation of Esteban Feune de Colombi and Xavi Bassas.

On this occasion, Caellas will install a number of oracles to serve viewers, who will be invited to participate in brief personalised sessions. Instead of working like a predictive artifice, each oracle works as a poetic, sensitive device, a tool to reveal what has remained hidden—in our perception, in aesthetic experience or in the act of looking. The activity proposes an opening up exercise, allowing intuition, ancestral wisdom and latent energies to find a place to express themselves.

This play of interpretations, combining performativity, presence and imagination, comes into direct dialogue with the ideas of Tàpies. Like the magician, the artist was well aware that almost everything is a trick, yet he also knew that authentic magic is not based on trickery but on what gets activated between the creator and the observer. For Tàpies, over and above the final result what mattered was the process, along with shared mystery and the affective relationship forged through objects and gestures.

“Unspeakable Magic” calls on us to explore this terrain between the visible and invisible, between art and ritual, experiencing the work and thought of Tàpies up close, in an intimate, unforeseen manner.

[Image: detail of one of the showcases of the exhibition Antoni Tàpies. The imagination of the World.]