{"id":40206,"date":"2025-07-03T16:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museutapies.org\/?page_id=40206"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:20:12","slug":"letters-to-the-mother","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museutapies.org\/en\/letters-to-the-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1991, Elena del Rivero began the project <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MOTHER<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, inspired by Kafka\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Letter to His Father<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The artist has developed this project throughout her career through letters, interventions, installations and other artistic forms, always focused on the concept of mother as a site of conflict and encounter. The intervention on the fa\u00e7ade of the Museu T\u00e0pies features a large neon sign with the words \u201cLetter to the Mother\u201d. As part of the project <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Extramural<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it seeks to offer a message of hope for vulnerable groups in society\u2014and particularly the trans community, given the circumstances it has been subject to by the government in the United States since 2021. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Letter to the Mother<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> does more than prolong a living project, interconnecting it with an ethics of responsibility that is both affective and emotional, the central notion of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/museutapies.org\/en\/exposicio\/elena-del-rivero-la-quema\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transiting \u201cLa Quema\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[\u201cThe Burning\u201d]<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The work is likewise aligned with a profound poetic dimension that is echoed in the poem by Emilio Arauxo dedicated to the artist, which culminates in the verse: \u201cel c\u00edrculo inmenso de la palabra <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mother<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d [the immense circle of the word <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mother<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">]. From out of this immensity, Elena del Rivero turns artistic gesture into an act of affect, memory and resistance, where the personal and the political are fused in a visual and textual language of deep emotional resonance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/museutapies.org\/en\/programa-public\/extramurs\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Extramural <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is a project led by the Museu T\u00e0pies in coordination and exchange with various creators, structures, and institutions. It envisions the city of Barcelona as a space for reflection and dialogue, as well as for articulating and intervening in public space and the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Artist Elena del Rivero and curator Mateo Feij\u00f3o are the guests of this edition of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Extramural <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">project, promoted by the Museu T\u00e0pies in collaboration with the Festival Grec Barcelona, \u200b\u200bEina Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art, the Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi, Centre d&#8217;Art La Capella, Galeria Senda, Loop Festival, Mesclad\u00eds, and Tant\u00e0gora.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Museu T\u00e0pies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carrer <\/span>Arag\u00f3, 255, Barcelona<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">08.07.2025 &#8211; 23.11.2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm; Sunday from 10 am to 7 pm<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In 1991, Elena del Rivero began the project MOTHER, inspired by Kafka\u2019s Letter to His Father. 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