Manías… y todo eso

Screening of Quines flors es porten a una fossa? by Elena Gilda, with an intervention by Mireia Sallarès.

Quines flors es porten a una fossa? is an audiovisual piece that sits somewhere between a documentary and an experimental essay that starts by questioning the family narrative surrounding the author's great-grandmother's death. The only information they had was that she had died "crazy" during the Spanish Civil War. Through archival and filmed images, the piece goes on a journey through names, dates, and silences until it reaches the present day. Elena Gilda works and researches on memories, legacies, and power relationships. Irony, satire, and humor are often present in her work and are frequently the drivers of everyday and archival images. Her pieces interweave the intimate and personal with speculation and audiovisual play, aiming to find the cracks in hegemonic methods of representation.

The screening of Quines flors es porten a una fossa? will be accompanied by a conversation with the author and artist Mireia Sallarès, who will use the video to address questions about the links between violence and mental, social, historical and political unrest through the figure of Francesc Tosquelles, as well as the concept of potential history developed by the decolonial and feminist author Ariella Aïscha Azoullay, who proposes a critical reading of archives and historical temporality.

By Hamaca

With the participation of Mireia Sallarès

Elena Gilda works and researches on memories, inheritance and power relations. In her work, irony, satire and humour are present and are often the drivers of everyday and archive images. Her pieces intertwine the intimate and personal with speculation and audiovisual play in an attempt to find cracks in the hegemonic methods of representation.

Mireia Sallarès is an artist and visiting professor at the Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse. She graduated in Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona and studied film at the New School University in New York. Her works are the result of long life research on essential themes such as violence, pleasure, sexuality, truth, love or work, and in the struggle against the construction of subjectivity of the dominant discourses. His latest project Història potencial de Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya i la por, has been awarded the 7th edition of the Premio de Videocreació del Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya and LOOP Barcelona. A film between experimental documentary and speculative fiction that recovers the forgotten legacy of the exiled Catalan republican psychiatrist, who in critical times of the 20th century revolutionised and politicised psychiatry, changing forever and ever our relationship with madness.

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