FONS ÀUDIO #61
Mireia Sallarès
Mireia Sallarès (Barcelona, 1973) works with life stories. An artist who questions whether she is an artist, her practice pushes the boundaries of contemporary art and filmmaking. She carries out long-term research into lives and turns her findings into stories that give a voice to communities, groups, and individuals around the world. She gives voice to witnesses and accomplices so that they will have a voice, often from the status of foreigners, using interviews as a channel to reflect on concepts such as violence, truth, power, pleasure, legality, love, and work.
In FONS ÀUDIO #61, Mireia Sallarès talks to us about her works in the MACBA collection. We plunge right in with Literatura de Replà, una relectura [Literature on the landing, A Rereading] (2014), Mireia’s first work to enter the MACBA Collection—although it may one day leave it—before moving disjointedly to Història potencial de Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya i la Por [Potential History of Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya, and Fear] (2021), a public service for the people of Catalonia. As the conversation unfurls in the opposite order to how it took place, we finish with Las Muertas Chiquitas [Little Deaths] (2009-2016), which Sallarès tells us she can always revisit to find a quote.
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