“Hi Jordi, sorry, but I didn’t hear this concert and I don’t remember anything about it”. In 2010, on the website with no name (lwsn.net) – a digital archive of autochthonous counterculture – a chat was initiated about a historic 1973 concert performed by British psychedelic band Gong in Montserrat Abbey.

But nobody knows anything. Nobody heard the concert, nobody remembers it, nobody was there. More voices join the chat, the mystery deepens and is self-perpetuating, at the limit of reality or memory. What was the concert like? Did it really happen? Can we recreate something we don’t know existed?

On the other side, sleep.

Pere Llobera started work on this painting prior to the appearance of testimony that would corroborate the events, on the same website with no name: video footage of the hallucinatory concert performed by Gong at the high altar at Montserrat, and a text contribution by the abbot, Francesc (Brother Francis), self-proclaimed facilitator of the occurrence.

Pere Llobera (Barcelona, 1970) combines his pictorial artistic practice with other media such as sculpture, photography, installation, as well as curating exhibitions.
His heterogeneous training ranges from an unfinished degree in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona to studies in History and Aesthetics of Cinematography in Valladolid during the 1990s, to a residency at the renowned Rijksacademie van Beeldende in Amsterdam during 2006 and 2007.
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions at national and international level. His latest solo exhibitions include At the cabinets at the Voorlinden Museum in The Hague (2019) and Orplid at the Bombón projects in Barcelona (2022).
In Barcelona he has collaborated with institutions such as the MNAC, the Miró Foundation (as curator of Espai 13), and in exhibitions at Caixaforum, the Brossa Foundation, and now at the Santa Mònica arts centre.