extender los límites de un pabellón

"If the activities we had programmed so far in the Pavelló Català, arquitecte anònim by Marti Anson had brought us closer to the idea of a house or habitable space through the way in which art dialogues with its volumes -Rasmus Nilausen-, fulfills the functions for which it had been conceived -MAIO-, shares conceptual, formal and aesthetic aspects with proposals from other countries -Josep Muñoz-, or offers itself as a framework for the resolution of unforeseen events such as the creation of a graffiti -anonymous-, its erasure with another graffiti -Rasmus Nilausen-, or the conversion of the space into a space for the creation of a graffiti -anonymous-, or offers itself as a framework for the resolution of unforeseen events such as the creation of a graffiti -anonymous-, its erasure with another graffiti -Rasmus Nilausen- or the conversion of the exhibition space into a temporary warehouse -Martí Anson & Fede Montornés-, it seems that it was written that the next activity had to refer to this idea from the perspective of those who inhabit it. That is, from us.

In order to make clear what his attitude towards the creative act was, Bruce Nauman once said that rather than being interested in adding something to a collection of things that are art, what interested him was to investigate the possibilities of what art could be. Well, remembering in a way this great premise, what Carme Torrent and Aimar Pérez Galí intend to do with Extender los límites de un pabellón is precisely not to add anything to what already exists and to take advantage of what they have found to make the relationship that space and movement maintain between them the reason for an action that, read in terms of hospitality, could be interpreted as the way we show ourselves to the outside. Or the way to welcome others. That is, without walls or obstacles, ready to learn, exchanging, doing. In short, being.

In an exercise without beginning or end performed to make the process of deconstructing a space -in this case, an object of art- the subject from which the depth of the entity that Carme and Aimar assign to the body, space, environment, and time required to apprehend it, their intervention will consist of maximizing the removal of the boundaries that delimit this space/object from the outside, the limits that exist between it and the environment, and the limits of the space that houses it in relation to the place it occupies. It is not, therefore, about adding a new object but about changing the order of things that exist to allow, in this kind of active metamorphosis, the space to open, show itself as it is, and invite the audience to walk through it, not from the center but from the space surrounding it. The space through which it expands, the space that makes it limitless.

Coming from the field of dance and the conception of movement as that which, when unfolding, updates space until it leaves a mark, it could be said that what Carme and Aimar aim to carry out is not just to open the space to show its innards but to leave it unfinished in order to open it to the imagination, to the possibility of finishing it as we wish, and to a kind of action in which we can all participate due to the absence of complexity, the clarity of the action, the simplicity of the gesture, the transparency of its intention.

If the idea of space that Aalto had was about the continued relationship between interior and exterior space, the exercise of Carme and Aimar appeals to this same idea of continuity from a performative practice, conceived to be done with the help of time and designed to reflect on acts that do not end with their completion and that, through an active and continuous present, question the times required to dialogue with space."

Frederic Montornés