Project Participation and Presentation within the Framework of the Exhibition History Doesn’t Care for Me, the Archives Do ️ March 20 – May 15, 2025
Curatorial Text by FemArt
This year we want to focus on the archive as a creative space. The past weighs on us and moves through our bodies; History with a capital H—like the forces of order or the repressive apparatuses of the State—violates us through its dynamics of oblivion and forgetfulness. This year’s showcase aims to emphasize the reclaiming of the body, memory, and creativity over reason, official history, and dominant discourse.
The archive, much like our imaginative capacity, is a welcoming, dynamic, inclusive, and generous dimension—always open to new additions and exchanges. The past survives in its objects in a subdued, ghostly but resilient state, always waiting for someone to reawaken it by proposing interpretations that reconnect it to the present. The archive is the space where possible futures and the memories of things linger and resist the often-violent passage of history and the induced apathy of the present.
Artistic practice operates by radically confronting images of the past, repetitions, and inertia with disruptive innovations, thus allowing for transformative openings in knowledge and experience. Artistic objects are first-rate memory documents, linking us to the past in a unique way. They also enable us to move from the personal to the shared, from the individual to the collective and political.
Bodies/artistic objects express a dynamic memory that exceeds the boundaries imposed by history or reason, and they stimulate the ability to imagine and create new images. In this open call, we invite you to dig into the archive, explore it, care for it, co-create with it in order to release and make imaginable once again all the buried futures—through artistic practice.
With artists:
aïda e. borràs
Anna Fando Morell
Dèlia Rodríguez Camins
Helena Pérez
Inma Ramos Pizarro
La Erreria (House of Bent)
La Metro
Maira Colín
Mariona Ribas
Mireia Ludevid i Llop
Nani Miras and amigas
piliparra and Sílvia Terol Ledesma
Raquel Marcos / Solomillx
Xeito Fole and Andrea Corrales
Charlotte Nordgren Sewell
And below is the poster for the discussion and opening of the research during the cycle of activities.
