SER. INSTANTÀNIA EN MOVIMENT
We are never in balance. Everything in the world is unbalanced and we seek balance. But we know that this is not possible because there is always the movement that causes the imbalance. And movement is life.
Sanja Kosonen
In the circus, extraordinary things happen on a regular basis, such as moving in the air or walking down. From here, organic and ephemeral forms emerge, ecstatic and unusual expressions. They are actions of passage, playing with the force of bodies and gravity, among other things. When a body reaches zero gravity, at the point of suspension of the path, it is where the balance becomes. A moment of transcendence.
Understanding the transience of these moments leads me to observe the circus from this transitional quality that rituals have. Paying attention to the sensitivity of the forms adopted by the same route. For example, the preparatory look of two people who are going to make a balance from hand to hand, the tempos of movement that are marked through the breath as a whole, the play of articulation between several bodies while communicating in a sensory way or the fall.
The possibility of falling is always there, but there is a presence when we want to go beyond the threshold and reach the unknown point. Because that’s where the risk comes in. When we are in the transition from one place to another, from one movement to another, the only orientation we have in this liminar space is a blind bet. Trust and face the void.
Marta Garcia Cardellach
Photographer and visual artist, graduated in Humanities with postgraduate degree in participatory and therapeutic photography. He deepens his training at the Center of Photographic Heritage in Santiago de Chile, at the Center of the Art of the Photographie of Lectoure and the Massana school.
Specialized in performing arts photography, since 2011 she has worked on commission for festivals and companies between Spain and France, other European countries and Japan. Work that combines artistic creation and pedagogical projects, both solo and in a team collaborating with Nilak Circ Itinerant Theatre and Culture and Conflict, among others.
At the same time, he has worked for the Photographic Social Vision Foundation, the World Press Photo and DocField Barcelona, creating the photopedagogical collective “Construïm Mirades” (2017-2020) with Oriol Segon and Xenia Gasull, offering artistic proposals to work in a pluricultural and intergenerational way with people at risk of exclusion, educational centers and diverse spaces. He has exhibited at the Photopatagonia festival (Argentina), by the National Council of Culture and Arts (Chile), at the Casa Elizalde in Barcelona, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Sala Pere Quart, among others and has collaborated with collective exhibitions in the international arena.
This year presents the first audiovisual piece of the project “Glòria” about desire at the Abelló Museum within Mollet Art, and the project “Roseta” (art and nature research grant of the Panera de Lleida) at the CAN de Farrera together with Neus Solà. She is awarded the Lacetània Prize for Art and Culture, first prize for photography at the Besmina festival Barcelona and finalist of “Mirades amb veu” by Metges del Món.
Marta G. Cardellach studies the possibilities of image as a research tool to question the limits of human nature in the visual culture of the 21st century. It reflects on the role of the image in the construction of human identity, of the gaze and rituals, from which it traces routes to know other realities. His methodology is nourished by the Humanities, the work with people and the practice of other artistic languages, which allow him to play with different points of view. This path leads her to experiment with analog, video, performance and three-dimensional imaging techniques of the media, to interact with the borders that exist between her gaze and the environment. In this case, the image is also a way to explore emotional language and a means to construct meanings. Working with people in an intercultural and intergenerational way allows them to value the process of exchange of views and discover humanity where limits are spread.
