Letters as Windows (or Windows as Letters)
Free, essayistic, and poetic approach to the exhibition from the perspective of architecture and architectural photography.
Led by Urtzi Grau, architect, editor, curator, and co-director of Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme.
Time: 11 am – 2 pm.
About the exhibition
Correspondre. Epistolary Relations and Artistic Practice
Mohamed Bourouissa | Luz Broto | Martí Madaula | Àlex Nogué | Irena Visa | Shizuka Yokomizo
Curated by Alexandra Laudo [Heroínas de la Cultura]
28.02.26 | 03.05.26
The exhibition Correspondre brings together a group of works by contemporary artists from the Catalan and international context that take the letter and its derivatives as their format.
The exhibition seeks to explore the nature of time and the intimacy created in epistolary relationships, and to reflect on the needs and desires that lead us to address another person through correspondence.
Through proposals articulated around written letters, emails, mobile phone messages, or other more abstract communicative exchanges, the exhibition also reflects on the deeper meaning of the term “to correspond” in a time when individualism occupies a central place. It understands epistolarity as a relational gesture — a practice that creates bonds and sustains relationships of care and mutual responsibility.
In many of the works, the urgency of addressing another person through letters or related communicative acts arises in the context of an experience of imprisonment or confinement — such as during COVID-19 — establishing a resonance between the exhibition proposal and the building where it takes place, the former Mataró Prison.
