Transitar "La Quema". Elena del Rivero

As part of the Museu Tàpies’ Extramurs 2025 programme, Galeria Senda presents Diarios this November, a series by Elena del Rivero that forms part of the project ‘Transitar La Quema’.

La Quema began in Galicia in 2024 (promoted by A Casa do Pozo) and is a radical proposal in which the artist burned her own work after it had been exhibited in private homes and spaces in the village. Documented in images and sound, this symbolic act explores destruction as a gesture of purification and renewal, and is now being transferred to the urban context of Barcelona as part of a broader reflection on memory, art and public space.

Diarios consists of small-format pieces that belong to Del Rivero’s intimate and everyday imagination. Through collage and the gluing of objects found on her morning walks, the artist shapes a visual narrative that records the ephemeral, the vulnerable and the domestic. These deeply personal works offer a leisurely look at time and experience, in tension with the radical gesture of La Quema.

In dialogue with Del Rivero’s graphic series, and as part of the City Screen 2025 program, two documentaries will be screened: “O carro e o home” (1940–1945) by Antonio Román and Xaquín Lorenzo, which offers an ethnographic look at rural Galicia, and “Documental La Quema” (2025) by Impro Films, which documents the radical project in which the artist burned her own work.

This exhibition opens up a space to rethink how we inhabit the world and how art can intervene in it, from the intimate to the collective.