“During a year and a half in bed, while my body performed on its own: it burned and convulsed inside.
At the same time, several volcanoes erupted around the world.”
Consol Llupià García
For another year, Homesession and La Escocesa collaborate together in the INVITED program, this time the artist in residence with a grant is Consol Llupià García who will present her exhibition Preludi: Quan el cos performa sol.
Preludi is part of a previous artistic project: “Quan el teu cos performa sol” (When your body performs on its own). From her personal experience as a chronically ill person, the artist offers a critical reflection on the perception of sick bodies and their capacity to produce knowledge and meaning in the artistic and political spheres, as well as within the parameters of productivity and value established by capitalism. One of the fundamental axes of this research is the relationship between primitive lithic mythology and the cultural and symbolic construction of the sick body.
With Preludi, the artist activates this previous research in dialogue with an audiovisual piece, through which she recounts her life process from diagnosis to the physical and emotional construction of her self-identification as a chronically ill and disabled person. It also includes dialogue with her environment: narratives about landscape technology and myths, both primitive and popular, associated with endometriosis.