DES DEL SILENCI - FROM SILENCE

Des del silenci – From Silence
by Priscilla Benyahia
curated by Nerea Campo

Des del silenci – From Silence is the exhibition project by artist Priscilla Benyahia, recipient of the REMEIS 2025 grant, awarded by Entorns and a cobert in collaboration with Can Felipa Civic Centre. During her residency in the village of Músser (Lles de Cerdanya), the artist encountered a story so affecting that it became impossible not to bring it into the work.

Músser is a village of just over thirty inhabitants. One of them is Esteve, who takes care of a group of horses and mares. During Priscilla’s stay, and with her prior intention of working with horsehair, Esteve set aside several tails so that the artist could begin working with the material. A few days later, one of the mares fell into the river. The accident caused her death. This unexpected event directly connected the artist to an unresolved family mourning.

This event became the starting point of the exhibition. From this experience, Priscilla Benyahia gives form to a body of work that engages primarily with techniques of carding, braiding and twisting originating in Ait Tizi, in the Djurdjura mountains of Algeria. These techniques belong to a legacy transmitted and fragmented over time, which Benyahia activates through a radically contemporary formal language.

In Des del silenci – From Silence, the artist works with human hair, horsehair and sheep’s wool, combined with copper, glass and image-transfer techniques, to explore thresholds and passages between life and death, between the human and the animal.