Guided visit to the exhibition “Una imatge que engoleix, que xucla”, led by Caterina Almirall, curator of the show.
Free activity with prior reservation required.
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.
