Selected Artists
ESTEL BOADA
My mother taught me the importance of observing and choosing a good potato before cooking. Either the red-skinned Red Pontiac, with marked eyes, or the Kennebec, also known as the protected Prades potato, with yellow, smooth skin.
My sister and I spent our days doing vocals for all the songs we heard on the radio, I always did the second voice. When my parents were not at home, I danced the “Pitufos Makineros” on the dining room table. My father, despite being a businessman, taught me that you can do what you want even on the street, that people don’t care about your “craziness”. Everything drives and generates the active body that I am as a singer, plastic artist and multifaceted worker.
At the same time, I’m interested in aesthetics and design as a form of graphic communication, in the same way that a child loves to have her parents make her a little airplane before feeding her daily porridge.
Basically, I believe in the power of the spoon myth because in the end, we’re all banana porridge, muesli or oatmeal, it doesn’t matter.
After studying Fine Arts [2009-2013] and starting to push myself culturally as a curator of contextual art projects, I was encouraged to study Swiss typography and editorial design due to my dyslexia and passion for visual structure and the dynamics that can be generated on something as simple as a piece of paper. Then, the artistic wave wanted to reach the more performative part until reaching music, voice and bodily gestures as acts of personal liberation, in which I am currently located.
I am interested in education as a format of experimental research, sound and music as channels of multidirectional communicative diffusion, drawing as a daily witness of which it may not be a witness, and action as a strategic creation of the ‘body and spatial attention. Game, voice, space and collective in vein, now and always.
TERESA W
Teresa W (Barcelona, 1995) is a fairy ･.*･｡ﾟ･. and artist. Curious-fascinated by the mystery of communal ritual, she explores the intersection between performance and sound art pieces that speak in many voices. On this path she finds the “Cercle de fades”, the performance collective to which she now belongs. “Cercle de fades” is her utopia, the world she wants to live in, her astral family, her clan. The field in which w moves is an abstract one: it is the terrain of the sense, of what we perceive to be there, but which cannot be pronounced.
She is currently working on the project “sons per la fi del món”, which has received the Art Jove Creació Award (2024), which will be developed, in part, in residence at the Casa d’Artistes to be presented at the IV Jornades de Performance a Menorca (2024). She also collaborates with the collective “Cercle de fades” in the project “cridant la meva ànima”, realized thanks to the Visual and Performance Arts Residency Grant (2023) which will be presented shortly both at La Capella and at ‘Estruch, Fàbrica de Creació de les Arts en Viu (2024).
In the past she has performed in spaces such as the Miró Foundation (2023), the Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica (2022) or the Art Nou Festival (2022) with the collective “Cercle de fades”, and at the CCCB in collaboration with Eduard Escoffet (2022), among others. She has exhibited in centers such as the Museum of Design in Barcelona (2021) or the Esther Montoriol Gallery (2016), and has received recognitions such as the Art Nit Campos Award (2023) or the award “Mención Especial Performance” (2022). She has also participated as a researcher in the European research project “Musae”, together with S+T+Arts and the University of Barcelona, she has collaborated with the CCCB, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the HKW in Berlin for the program “Cultures d’Avenir” (2021-22) and has obtained the Research and Innovation Grant in the field of Visual Arts (2023).
