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The Museu T\u00e0pies presents a seminar with the aim of exploring the language and cosmology of Marta Palau. On the foundation of indigenous cosmovisions and ancestral rituals, topics such as shamanism, healing and sacred symbolism will be addressed.<\/span><\/p>\n This event enables us to reflect on how Palau uses practices that channel concepts of magic and history in relation to artistic practice, developing a visual poetics that connects with the collective subconscious and ancestral memory. Her use of natural materials and traditional textile techniques, as well as the creation of symbology rooted in personal experience, help us speak of art as a creative tool for cultural resistance, accentuating the spiritual abundance of native cultures.<\/span><\/p>\n As the closing event of the film series \u2018The (In)visible Exiles\u2019, this seminar contributes to a rupture with anthropocentric and Eurocentric consciousness, so as to inhabit the world on the basis of other narratives, focusing on collective imaginations. In this regard, the work of Palau should be understood as an act of memory and resistance in the face of dehumanising processes, and as a gesture favouring understanding of the world as a concentric, relational whole.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n PROGRAMME<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00b7 6 pm. Presentation of the session by the Museu T\u00e0pies<\/span><\/p>\n \u00b7 6.10 pm. Lecture \u2018Marta Palau Amongst Paths of Exile\u2019, by Mari Paz Balibrea<\/span><\/p>\n \u00b7 6.50 pm. Lecture \u2018Between Two Worlds: Women, Art and Exile\u2019, by Gemma Dom\u00e8nech<\/span><\/p>\n \u00b7 7.30 pm. Lecture \u2018Those Female Visionaries, We Female Visionaries: The Cosmology of Marta Palau\u2019, by Pilar Bonet<\/span><\/p>\n \u00b7 8.10 pm. Poetic interlude \u2018The Word: Exile of Exile\u2019, by Maria Sevilla<\/span><\/p>\n \u00b7 8.30 pm. Debate with Mari Paz Balibrea, Gemma Dom\u00e8nech, Pilar Bonet and Maria Sevilla, moderated by the Museu T\u00e0pies<\/span><\/p>\n \u00b7 9 pm. Closing<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mari Paz Balibrea<\/b><\/p>\n Balibrea is Professor of Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies at Birbeck, University of London. Her work explores the political dimension of culture, focusing particularly on 20th-century Spain. In this line of research, she has published widely on the role of left-wing intellectuals, as well as on the legacy of Spanish Republican exiles and the construction of the idea of the citizen in the creative city. She has been an advisor on the art and culture of Republican exiles for the recent remodelling of the permanent collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pilar Bonet Julve<\/b><\/p>\n A researcher, historian and art critic, Bonet is a professor at the University of Barcelona. She is an expert on the art and spirituality of visionary European women, and is president of the Fundaci\u00f3 Josefa Tolr\u00e0 – Art Visionari, as well as creator and co-director of the research group Visionary Women Art (ACCA Research Prize, 2023).<\/span><\/p>\n An exhibition curator in contemporary art, in recent years her shows have been centred on graphic and textile creativity by heterodox artists:<\/span> Josefa Tolr\u00e0 i Madge Gill, dones vision\u00e0ries<\/span><\/i>, Museu Nacional d\u2019Art de Catalunya (MNAC), 2023; <\/span>La m\u00e8dium i el poeta. Una conversa astral entre Josefa Tolr\u00e0 i Joan Brossa<\/span><\/i>, Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Brossa, Barcelona, 2020; <\/span>ALMA. M\u00e8diums i vision\u00e0ries<\/span><\/i>, Museu d\u2019Art Es Baluard de Palma, 2019; <\/span>Josefa Tolr\u00e0 i Julia Aguilar. Art des de l\u2019altre costat<\/span><\/i>, Les Bernardes de Salt, Girona, 2017; and <\/span>Josefa Tolr\u00e0. Dibujo fuerza flu\u00eddica<\/span><\/i>, Can Palauet, Matar\u00f3, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gemma Dom\u00e8nech<\/b><\/p>\n Dom\u00e8nech is Serra Hunter Plan Adjunct Professor in the Department of History and Art History of the University of Girona (UdG), and since 2022 has been the director of the Institut Catal\u00e0 de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural (ICRPC), where she had been a researcher since 2009. Alongside these activities, from 2019 to 2021 she was general director of Democratic Memory of the Government of Catalonia.<\/span><\/p>\n She has a PhD in Art History from the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (2000), and has had an extensive career in research, with over one hundred publications and presentations at national and international conferences. Highlights include her line of research on the repression and exile of Spanish Republican architects and the Mexican exile of female Catalan artists. These studies have led to collaborative projects with the Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico and the Colegio de Jalisco (Guadalajara, Mexico). <\/span>Dom\u00e8nech is co-author of <\/span>Segundo diccionario de los catalanes de M\u00e9xico<\/span><\/i> (Porr\u00faa, Mexico City, 2022), winner of the 56th Serra d\u2019Or Critic\u2019s Prize in Catalan Research.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maria Sevilla<\/b><\/p>\n Sevilla is a researcher and precarious professor in Catalan language and literature at the University of Barcelona, while also working as a poet and rhapsodist. She has published four books of poems and a <\/span>plaquette<\/span><\/i>: <\/span>Dents de polpa<\/span><\/i> (2015), <\/span>Kal\u00e0ixnikov<\/span><\/i> (2017), <\/span>if true: false; else: true<\/span><\/i> (2020), <\/span>Plastilina<\/span><\/i> (2021) and <\/span>La nit ov\u00edpara <\/span><\/i>(2024). In 2024 she published her first essay, <\/span>No desitjar\u00e0s els b\u00e9ns del pro\u00efsme<\/span><\/i>. She has experimented with liminal genres such as sound poetry and video recitals, and since January 2019 has been one of the three programmers at Horiginal. In the performing arts, she has recited her work in many national festivals, as well as in cities such as Quetzaltenango, Istanbul, Vilnius, London, Paris and Calcutta.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A seminar with the aim of exploring the language and cosmology of Marta Palau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[5770],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n