PAINS, REMEDIES, AND CURES (DOLORS, REMEIS I CURES)
31/01/26 – 28/02/2026
A project by Xè Canal Calvo
Opening January 31st at 12 p.m.
Eixart. Art i Salut (Eixart. Art and Health) is an initiative by the Department of Culture, with the General Directorate of Cultural Promotion and Libraries, in collaboration with the Department of Health, as part of the Visual Arts Promotion Plan (Pla d’Impuls de les Arts Visuals).
Pain, according to the IASP (International Association for the Study of Pain), is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with real or potential injury. But beyond the clinical definition, pain is a situated experience, affected by the body, by memory, language, gender, class, and culture. It is a deeply subjective and, at the same time, social experience. However, the healthcare system tends to approach it through limited frameworks. This system is often incapable of responding to pain’s multidimensionality, especially when it becomes chronic, and is concealed with silence, or dismissed by misunderstanding, or delegitimisation.
PAINS, REMEDIES AND CURES is a research, mediation, and artistic production project developed at the CAP del Remei de Vic, in collaboration with ACVIC. Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, which focuses on the voices of users and dialogues with healthcare professionals, exploring the ways by which chronic pain is perceived, explained, and treated, from a community and intercultural perspective, and recognising everyday knowledge that often remains outside institutional circuits.
The project makes use of the kitchen as a space for meeting, listening, and transmission; a place where the gesture of caring and the creative gesture merge. Through recipes, stories, and shared practices, the kitchen becomes a symbolic territory where pain can be spoken of, translated, and collectively sustained. Here, cooking is not just about food, but is also a form of radical care, a practice that recognises the interdependence between bodies, and which opens spaces of repair, resistance, and belonging.
