Or i Aram
Ció Prat Bofill
@pratcio
Curated by: Natasha Christia
El Xalet, Casa
@ccgolferichs ,
@espaicatalaroca , Barcelona
June 6, 2025 – July 25, 2025
The exhibition unfolds within the space primarily through the photographic images and haikus featured in the Or i aram project. The installation is complemented by a series of intervened photographic images from the artist’s archive, attributed to her father. Mostly dated from the late 1940s and 1950s, these original 6x6 format photographs depict the young family—parents and their five children—on their strolls around the outskirts of Torelló, in Central Catalonia. Poses and scenes emerge amid an idyllic natural landscape of woods, rivers, and masias. This archive is currently part of a publication in progress that will bring together the father’s time notebooks.
Some of these images appear here as fragments with specific resonances. What is shown and what is absent hold equal weight—echoes of haikus themselves: incomplete, poetic. Their themes—water, reflections, sky, and gestures of affection—interlace throughout the space, alongside sculptural pieces and a site-specific projection in the second room.
In this second space—the chimney room—a video work shows the artist’s hands unfolding pages from the notebooks, the Or i aram book, and a family collection of her mother’s haikus. Through this performative act, new narratives and intergenerational dialogues emerge, reinforcing the relational nature of the entire installation.
The exhibition text is presented under the chimney in nine fragmented, ambiguous pieces. Visitors are invited to carry them away, embedding them into their own memories.
The whole suggests an archive in the making—a memory surfacing into visibility, on a shared surface common to us all.
Production:
@egm.qualityimage ,
@copialab ,
@atelier_kostenko
Graphic design: Laura Estragués
@lauraestragues_dissenygrafic
Audiovisual: Alex Domènech
@imalexdomenech
Installation pics: (c) Roberto Feijoo