The publication of four volumes of writings by Fina Miralles, entitled Fina Miralles. Paraules fèrtils 1973-2017, has highlighted the deep connection between the artist’s writing and visual work. The exhibition Fina Miralles. Des de més enllà del temps explores this dialogue and reveals what the eyes do not see yet which the artist helps us perceive.
In this visual universe, the white of the paper or canvas ceases to be a base for expression or representation in order to become a living space in which different shapes flow alongside one another, the forms of the wind, movements of water and rhythms of energy, and many other symbolic images. The line is the soul of these works, while the compositional structure creates a circular vision in a cosmogonic movement in which everything is related to everything else.
Among these works we find landscapes that make up a cosmocentric view of the world and draw the beauty of a universe of analogies whereby the earth, atmosphere, sky, firmament and human beings become orbits of interrelated energy. In addition to the landscapes, the figure runs through the whole of Fina Miralles’ pictorial corpus, with images that recall the common indigenous past of all humankind, the presence of the biological mother, or the cosmic tree and the water beings; and we also find a gallery of mythological beings that summon from the ancestral power of the totem, to the spirit of the forest, of the day and the night, or endow an image to the flowering of the plant kingdom.
The exhibition ends with the cycle of works entitled Memorial (1996) which the artist defines as “a journey from light towards light”. With these canvases, Fina Miralles closes the circle of life and art that she had begun in 1973.

Deixar-te córrer (20 min., 2021) is the first piece by artist Anna Dot which seeks to create a legislative proposal advocating for the acknowledgement of the River Ter’s legal personality. The video traverses various stretches of the River Ter whilst a voice reads out the proposal. For its exhibition in the Bòlit (Centre d’Art Contemporani de Girona), the video was shown on a hanging screen, alongside the legislative documents that served as references for the project, as well as images depicting mythologies from diverse cultures, highlighting their diverse connections with other living creatures and elements of nature.

With the aim of starting a conversation with local collections committed to the promotion of contemporary art, LOOP contributes to the exhibition Somiant una possibilitat [“Dreaming of a Possibility”] curated by Natàlia Chocarro Bosom and Alicia Ventura Bordes with Isabel Rocamora’s video Horizon of Exile. On the premises of the Espais Volart, the show brings together works of the Fundació Vila Casas and the DKV collections in order to foster interactions between different artists’ practices and their personal readings of time and its peculiarities. In this context, Horizon of Exile by Rocamora stands as an intimate meditation on stories of female exile, inspired by the testimonies of Iraqi refugee women. The work shows a series of actresses as they traverse a desert, seemingly suspended in time, and highlights their choreographed movements as they address issues of land and identity.

Espai Volart features the work Calidoscopio alma flotante (2004) by Spanish artist Chema Alvargonzález, from the colección olorVISUAL, Barcelona. The works by Alvargonzález (1960–2009), of a markedly conceptual nature, alternate above all photography, installations and sculpture. His interventions on buildings, installations involving neon lights and light boxes are some of the media Alvargonzález used to present his work, always set around a common axis: light-words-formsarchitecture-spectator.

KALEIDOSCOPE
Tentacles of the Soul / The smell of the recollection spreads through me / Holding on the images that dwell in the most distant regions of my memory / EXPLODE Skin Sea Sunset on a beach / Manure walking in the countryside Hospital / Night Every movement of the tentacles is a sensation / The reflections multiply everything turns in the stillness.   © Chema Alvargonzález