Alícia Casadesús IN RESiDENCE at the School Jaume Balmes

ENFILALLS [STRINGS]

ENFILALLS [STRINGS]
Installation comprising three elements:
Felt-tip pen and collage on twenty sheets of paper attached to wooden frames (seismometer); various objects arranged on the table; and texts in vinyl on the wall.

Description of the work
Enfilalls is a piece formed by three series of elements that are intertwined and generate a dialogue with each other. Firstly, a mosaic of papers that recreate a seismic itinerary; secondly, a table full of personal objects covered by threads, “threaded”; and, finally, texts, short poems, on the wall. All this, to speak about place based on each individual’s personal places, constructing one that is common, shared. A place that speaks of privacy, memory, nothingness, evanescence.

"A place is a confluence of many places: personal, intimate, remembered, symbolic, of recollection, intangible, which together make up an imaginary space in which we can find refuge."

At the same time, correspondence was one of the cornerstones of the work process. Exercises, thought, emotions, doubts and so on enabled us to go from one to the other and finally link places and thoughts as a key element in the whole creative process. In this sense – and in order to give an account of this crucial element in the process – the day of the presentation also featured the pupils’ personal notebooks, which those attending could view.

Presentation
The presentation took place at 7.30 pm on May 28 at Casa Elizalde. The pupils, with Alícia Casadesús, Antoni Clapés and the teacher Jonathan Palacín, described the work process and the pieces presented. The Director of Casa Elizalde opened the presentation by welcoming those attending.

The audience was formed by pupils and their families, teachers from the school and representatives from Barcelona Education Consortium and the Barcelona City Council Institute of Culture.
The exhibition was open for a month, closing on June 24.

Some of the pupils thoughts during the process were reflected on the show notes published for the exhibition