Exhibition “Allò que no s'anomena. Entre les expectatives i el patiment”

Allò que no s’anomena: entre les expectatives i el patiment

29.01.2026 – 15.03.2026

Fridays from 5 pm to 8 pm / Saturdays from 11 am to 2 pm and from 5 pm to 8 pm / Sundays from 11 am to 8 pm

Opening: Thursday, January 29 at 7 pm

Allò que no s’anomena: entre les expectatives i el patiment is based on the idea that imposed social expectations uphold the system, often at the cost of silence and suffering. Historically, femininity has been associated with the obligation to please, not to disturb, and above all not to speak out or point to the violences that run through bodies and lives. Naming, however, forces us to observe and confront an uncomfortable reality.

The exhibition brings together work developed by artists Montse Morcate, Mireia Plans, Raquel Luaces and Rebeca Pardo, partly during their residency at Roca Umbert and also within the framework of the academic research project Representaciones contemporáneas del dol y el patiment: visibilitat, agència i transformació social a través de la imatge (Generación del Conocimiento 2022 – Ministry of Science and Innovation). Through diverse practices such as installation and the photobook, the artists address everyday yet structural forms of violence related to motherhood, mental health, aesthetic pressure, technology and mechanisms of social recognition.

With the participation of Montse Morcate, Mireia Plans, Raquel Luaces and Rebeca Pardo
Texts by Nerea Campo
Graphic image by Núria Vila
Organised and produced by Espai d’Arts, Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts and Granollers City Council
With the support of the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia
Funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the European Union and the State Research Agency / PID2022-137176OA-I00