Exhibition We Are Not Afraid, We Are
Chemical Memory approaches the territory of Tarragona through its chemical reality, understood in a broad sense: industrial processes, agricultural practices, scientific protocols, and transformation technologies that, for decades, have shaped everyday life and imaginaries of progress. Chemistry, as a discipline, as a technique, and as a system of values, functions as a vector that reorganizes both the territory and social dynamics. In this way, it emerges as a regime of reality capable of generating forms of life, but also dependencies and vulnerabilities. The discourse of progress—the idea that greater transformation equals greater advancement—continues to operate within the agrarian economy and the technoscientific fiction that sustains the territorial narrative.
The project, coordinated by Quim Packard, has been developed through workshops, interviews, research, and fieldwork in order to engage with this complexity. A key part of the process has been carried out in collaboration with the theatre company Lo Nostru and with students from the Tarragona School of Art, with whom a presentation of the process will take place through an expanded scenography and an action at Mèdol, in the courtyard of Casa Canals.
Chemical Memory is a proposal in which art, pedagogy, and research intertwine to revisit the present, the past, and the future, and to imagine other forms of coexistence between matter, territory, and life.
About Quim Packard
Quim Packard is an artist and cultural manager specializing in the field of visual arts. His recent projects focus on ecology, education, and cultural management. He is co-founder of the project Fireplace and has worked as an educator, curator, and manager for various institutions, including MACBA, CCCB, Le Magasin (Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France), the L’Estruch Creation Factory in Sabadell, and Mèdol, Centre for Contemporary Arts of Tarragona.
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Date: Thursday, December 18
Time: 6:30 pm
Venue: Casa Canals Courtyard
Admission: Free and open to the public
