Screening of the film Historia potencial de Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya i la por (2021, 135 minutes) and discussion with the director Mireia Sallarès and Miquel Bassols, psychoanalyst, member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis of the Freudian Field and president of the Association Mondiale de Psychanalyse.

Halfway between experimental documentary and speculative fiction, the film tells the story of the Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles, not from what has been documented of the experiences in which he participated, but from what we are missing. Without separating the then and the now, the living from the dead, or the awareness of the unconscious, this film makes potential history of a doctor who in critical times of the 20th century politicised psychiatry, changing our relationship with madness and the normal man. Historia potencial de Francesc Tosquelles aims to reconstruct a legacy forgotten by Catalonia and the world, opening a self-critical space on the lack of memory of these pasts marked by war and exile.

Historia potencial de Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya i la por is a project awarded ex aequo at the 7th Edition of the Videocreation Award. Co-production of a video-creation project between the Territorial Centres of the Public System of Visual Arts Equipments of Catalonia^*, Santa Mònica, Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya and LOOP Barcelona.

^*Territorial Centres of the Public Visual Arts Equipments System of Catalonia: ACVIC. Contemporary Arts Centre, Vic; Fabra i Coats: Barcelona Contemporary Art Centre; Tecla Sala Art Centre, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat; La Panera Art Centre, Lleida; M|A|C Mataró Contemporary Art; Bòlit. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Girona; Lo Pati - Centro de Arte Tierras del Ebro, Amposta and Mèdol - Centro de Artes Contemporáneas de Tarragona.

Still from the film La història potencial de Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya i la por, © Mireia Sallarès.

Direction: Mireia Sallarès
Production: Catalunya
Year: 2021
Version: VC
Duration: 135’

This activity is part of the Santa Mònica curatorial training programme (creating) Situations: participatory art and thought.

Participants: Mireia Sallarès and Miquel Bassol

Mireia Sallarès (Barcelona, 1973) is an artist and teacher at the ISDAT in Toulouse and lives in traffic between Barcelona and other foreign cities where she develops projects that are the result of long life research on essential themes such as violence, pleasure, truth, love or work. His latest project, Kao malo vodena dlanu, has received the City of Barcelona Visual Arts Award 2019 and the ACCA 2019. Las Muertes Chiquitas is the project with which she has gained the most international recognition. She is also a guest lecturer on several international master's degrees, including the Master's Degree in Artistic Practices and Cultural Studies: Body, Affects, Territory at the UPNA. She has exhibited her work internationally at the Fundación Miró in Barcelona, the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico, the Americas Society in New York, the Organización Nelson Garrido in Caracas, the Centro Cultural Montehermoso in Vitoria, the Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, the Galleri Image in Aarhus, the OK Centrum in Linz, and La Capilla in Barcelona, among others.

Miquel Bassols is a psychoanalyst and member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis of the Freudian Field and the École de la cause freudienne; he holds a PhD from the Department of Psychoanalysis of the University of Paris 8 and teaches at the Clinical Section of Barcelona (Institut du champ freudien). President of the Association Mondiale de Psychanalyse since 2014. He has given courses and lectures in several countries in Europe and America.
He is the author of several books, including La psicoanàlisi explicada als mitjans de comunicació (1997), La interpretación como malentendido (2001), Finales de análisis (2007), Llull con Lacan. El amor, la palabra y la letra en la psicosis (2010), Lecturas de la página en blanco. La letra y el objeto (2011), El caballo del pensamiento (2011) Tu Yo no es tuyo. Lo real del psicoanálisis en la ciencia (2011), A psicanálise, a ciência, o real (2015). També publica textos i lectures de psicoanàlisi i literatura al Bloc Desescrits.