Written on Water, Èlia Llach
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Palau de La Virreina la Rambla 99, Barcelona
Image courtesy of La Virreina
Conceived as an open book recounting a journey without leaving a room, Elia Llach’s Writing on the Water is an exhibition of more than 700 drawings distributed in two different rooms. It is a kind of stage of life designed to be entered but also to accommodate the strength of a thought behind the form of a gesture.
Written on Water is based on three quotes related to water and words and the impact on Èlia Llach’s memory of Kasper, a play written by Peter Handke in 1967. Like an open book, this exhibition has been designed and crafted for the space that hosts it: a room.
The 36-square-metre space created by Llach is divided into two areas of different dimensions that are entirely covered by more than 700 drawings. It is a kind of stage of life built to accommodate both the viewer and the states of a thought that—like that of Kaspar Hauser or the artist herself—is capable of moving from the awakening of a gesture or language to incomprehension, obfuscation and the reflection of the purest silence.
Written on Water by Èlia Llach is the inner journey of an artist who, without leaving a room, strips the gesture and the word of any type of affectation to show herself from her entrails, through her hidden face, through silence.
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