Exhibition «Rodoreda, a forest»

The exhibition places at its centre the radical nature of an author who writes from innocence and cruelty, from clarity and shadow. In her stories, domestic gardens and unsettling houses, silent squares and ever-present trees coexist; alongside the bright memory of the childhood garden appear monstrous wisterias, fierce cacti, poisonous flowers and forests that harbour ghosts, suicides and creatures that exist only on the border between the real and the fantastic.

The itinerary is organised as a great symbolic forest:

Roots, which refer both to Rodoreda’s literary formation and to the uprooting of exile.

Trunks, marked by the experience of war, full of knots and wounds.

Branches, which seek dialogue with the Western artistic tradition—painting, literature, cinema.

Canopies, where birds nest and the imagination brushes the sky.

Seeds, which germinate in works created expressly by contemporary artists inspired by her legacy.

The exhibition establishes a dialogue between texts by Rodoreda and visual, audiovisual and original documentary pieces from the Fundación Mercè Rodoreda. Works by Èlia Llach, Mar Arza, Cabosanroque, Oriol Vilapuig and Carlota Subirós, among others, coexist with new projects selected by Martí Sales, forming a landscape that allows Rodoreda to be read as never before: from within her own forest.