Eulàlia Rovira. ‘The Outline of An Arch’
11 — 20 November 2022
— Within the context of "Natura viva: muse and mimesis", curated by Carolina Grau
- Artists
- Eulàlia Rovira
- Curators
- Carolina Grau
- Venue
- Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani: Soterrani de la Catedral, Girona
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"Natura Viva: muse and mimesis" is an initiative and production of the Xarxa Transversal, curated by Carolina Grau, with the support of the Culture department of Generalitat de Catalunya and the collaboration of the Centres of Art, Museums and Culture departments of the consortium municipalities.
We were a sea and we have not seen it. And not just any sea, but a tropical one. The eyes do not serve to understand a time scale difficult to imagine. But somehow we intuit that what surrounds us has not always been here, and that what we are is not what we were. The installation of Eulàlia Rovira approaches to the basement of the Cathedral of Girona at the quarries on the edge of the city from which the material that forms the building itself was extracted. Stones made from the remains of extinct marine animals with which to doubt whether the inert is really as immobile and as lifeless as language says.
Eulàlia Rovira
1985, Barcelona
Eulàlia Rovira (Barcelona, 1985) studied Fine Art at the Universitat de Barcelona (2009) and a MA Art in Context at the Universität der Künste Berlin (2013). She has recently received the award GAC 2020 to mid-career artist for the best gallery exhibition in a gallery. She has participated in the group exhibitions at Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA, 2021) and Coses que les coses diuen (Fabra i Coats: Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2020). She has had solo exhibitions at galleria ethall, l’Hospitalet (2020), Twin Gallery, Madrid (2020) and Capella de Sant Roc, Valls (2019). Since 2013 Rovira has collaborated with the artist, Adrian Schindler and with whom she has exhibited recently at The Green Parrot, Barcelona (2022) with the project The Plague, the Profit.
Carolina Grau
Carolina Grau is an art historian and independent curator specializing in contemporary art organising international exhibitions, projects and events. She has produced several individual exhibitions (Vasco Barata, Anna Barriball, Phil Collins, Martin Creed, Angela de la Cruz, Patricia Dauder, Muntadas, etc …) and group exhibitions for public institutions in Spain (Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao; Centre d’art La Panera, Lérida; CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo; Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid and Tabakalera, San Sebastian), private foundations and galleries in Brazil, France Portugal and Spain.
Grau was the associate curator for the Arquipelago Centro de Artes Contemporaneas (Sao Miguel, Azores Islands) in 2017 and co-founder and co-curator of the Biennale of Jafre I – VII (2003 to 2015), Gerona, Spain. She is currently presenting Natura Viva (Living Nature): Muse and Mimesis with 10 artistic interventions of new production in 10 cities of Catalonia with 10 artists from October to December 2022.
She is currently an active member of the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) and aFounding Committee Member of GCC Spain.