Marta Palau. My Paths are Earthly

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The Museu Tàpies presents the exhibition Marta Palau: My Paths Are Earthly, the artist’s first major international exhibition since her death.

The multidisciplinary creations by Marta Palau (Albesa, Lleida, 1934 – Mexico City, 2022) span a wide range of languages, fusing artistic and ancestral techniques, and also raise questions linked to territory, exile and migration, highlighting their importance due to the fact that they are, from one perspective, autobiographical, and from another, closely related to present-day conflicts. Her works perforate our present time, calling attention to many of the social and political wounds that characterise our contemporaneity and which originate, in a profound way, in her own experience of exile, a condition that, again, unfolds from her family’s experience and living near the border in Tijuana.

The exhibition includes drawings, paintings and some of her large-scale textile installations, presented alongside objects and materials from her personal archive that have never been exhibited until now. The project is completed with a publication that includes the research carried out on the artist for this exhibition, as well as on her social and political context, along with a wide and diverse offer of public and educational programmes for all ages.

The exhibition is co-produced by the Museu Tàpies and the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo de la UNAM, where the show will be presented in autumn 2025.