Projecting the invisible. Family shadow theatre workshop
Led by the artist and mediator Auri Alós
Recommended age: 6 to 12 years old, with adult accompaniment.
Prior registration required. Limited places
Can you imagine your shadow telling a story you haven’t said out loud? What if darkness could make things appear that we normally cannot see?
In this family workshop, we will transform the space into a small laboratory of light and penumbra. We will play with spotlights, fabrics, and silhouettes to observe how shapes change depending on distance, angle, or movement. We will discover that an image can expand, deform, or fade in a matter of seconds.
Through shadow theatre, we will invent characters that give form to what does not seem visible: ideas, memories, or imaginary worlds. By playing, experimenting, and observing, we will understand that not everything that exists has a body, and that sometimes it is in the penumbra where the most surprising stories begin to emerge.
Activity related to the exhibition “Una imatge que engoleix, que xucla”
16.04.2026 – 7.06.2026
Marta Cardellach, Oscar Moya Villanueva, Mercis Rossetti Caral, Laia Solé Coromina
Curated by Caterina Almirall
Opening hours: Fridays from 5 to 8 pm. Saturdays from 11 am to 2 pm and from 5 to 8 pm. Sundays from 11 am to 2 pm
The exhibition Una imatge que engoleix, que xucla – a title inspired by the publication Lo visible es un material inestable by the artist Eva Lootz – explores how art can anticipate, evoke, or suggest latent, potential, or yet-to-emerge issues and structures. How can that which does not (yet) exist be shown? How can we access everything that lies outside the field of vision?
In the essay Visión periférica, Marina Garcés reflects on how, in philosophical terms, over the centuries the sense of vision has been transferred from the realm of the sensible to that of reason, objectivity, and categorization. However, Garcés also questions the possibility of reclaiming a gaze seized by capitalism and viral consumption in order to return it to a bodily, sensory, and affective plane. What new visualities might unfold if we approached what lies at the peripheries of vision from a sensitive perspective? Can the intangible become material?
Caterina Almirall presents a curatorial proposal composed of a selection of projects in residence at Roca Umbert during 2025 that stretch and blur the limits of visuality and representation. The works and images proposed by Marta Cardellach, Oscar Moya Villanueva, Mercis Rossetti, and Laia Solé Coromina do more than just absorb: they slip, trace, modulate, point, and reveal.
