The other side

The experience of going to the other side is something you live every night, when you sleep and dream. Already during childhood you learned that death, that undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns, dramatically separates life from another place of which you know little or nothing. Consciousness is a small island surrounded by a narrow, unconscious sea, and going deep into that other place, chasing your demons, can be a one-way trip.

Apparently, there is one side —this one— and many other sides. But, at the same time, there is the ever-growing sense that perhaps this side is also not unique. Rigid and binary definitions are insufficient to describe the complexity that surrounds and pervades us: man or woman, madness or sanity, virtuality or reality.  Imposing these categories on us bind and destroys us. It prevents us from passing from what we believe to be towards what we wish to be. Reality and fiction begin to be indistinguishable from each other and, in the end, perhaps there is no other side.

The other side is all that you want it to be. Or, rather, everything that, not absolutely wanting it to be, you absolutely want it to be.

Forget for a moment everything that this side, the only one you think you know anything about, forces you to do: forget the categories, the reason and logics. Forget about imposed names and words. Forget about language that seems so solid. Forget everything you think you remember and go... into the other side.

Ferran Utzet and Enric Puig Punyet

Artists / Exhibited work:

Anna Irina Russell / Swell up like
Antonia Rossi i Roberto Contador / Black river
Domestic Data Streamers / Hiperdeath
Francesca Llopis / L’imminent… Artist's book by Francesca Llopis (1984-2024)
Gian Maria Tosatti / My hart is so leeg soos 'n spieël - Kaapstad episode
מייַן האַרץ איז בלאַנק ווי אַ שפּיגל - קאַפּע טאַון עפּיזאָד
Guillaume Faure / Eco
iara Solano Arana, Sleepwalk Collective / བར་དོ་ You are here
Max de Esteban / Rethoric of silence / 7 minuts
Pere Llobera / Memory without voice
Yapci Ramos / Parto

Giulia Grumi / Exhibition costumes

Interviews The other side

Performances The other side

Exhibition’s activities:

19.03 / 18:30 h: The other side
Conversation between Miquel Bassols, Miquel Missé, Eurídice Cabañes, Josep Maria Fericgla and Núria Martínez-Vernis.  

13.04 / 11:30 h – 19:30 h: Towards the subtle
Artistic-esoteric retreat, by Elisa Arteta. A space of transformation and healing with body practices and journeys of consciousness.  

18.05 (Night of Museums) / 18:00 h, 19:00 h, 20:00 h, 21:00 h, 22:00 h, 23:00 h, 24:00 h: 1518/840 Passing the invisible
Long lasting and resistance performance, by Zoe Balasch, in collaboration with the perfomers of the Unclassifiable Corpographies Laboratory and music by Xavi Lloses.

21.05 / 28.05 / 04.06 / 11.06 / 18.06 / 17:30 h – 20:00 h: Mortales/Liminal
Citizen laboratory to explore collectively about death and grief, by Albert Potrony and Roser Sanjuan.

Artists:
Anna Irina Russell
Antonia Rossi + Roberto Contador
Domestic Data Streamers
Francesca Llopis
Gian Maria Tosatti
Guillaume Faure
iara Solano Arana (Sleepwalk Collective)
Max de Esteban
Pere Llobera
Yapci Ramos

Curatorial board:
Ferran Utzet
Enric Puig Punyet

Exhibition design:
Espai e: Anna Alcubierre with the collaboration of Laura Salvador

Costume design:
Giulia Grumi

Illustration:
Mabel Piérola

3D illustration:
Mònica Molins

Sound creation:
Damien Bazin

Interviews creation:
Marc Tardiu

Interviews:
Eurídice Cabañes
Evru
Josep Maria Fericgla
Júlia Carreras
Miquel Bassols
Miquel Missé
Núria Martínez-Vernis

Theatrical stagers:
Mònica Molins
Paula Guardiola
Paula Roto

Performance:
Glòria Ros
Iver Zapata
Lara Brown
Mauricio Sierra
With the collaboration of La Caldera

A production by Santa Mònica

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