Els homes de carbó

The consequences of migration or displacement in people’s lives are the core theme of the performance by Serge Attukwei Clottey, an artist who has just transformed the façade of the Tàpies Foundation building with a mosaic of yellow tesserae made from oil recycling drums entitled Més enllà de la pell [Beyond the Skin]. You’ll be able to see the mosaic until December and meet the artist if you join the walk to the TNC on 2 July, with stops at buildings that tell the story of the city’s colonial past, ending with a concert by Momi Maiga. There will also be a performance by Serge Attukwei Clottey at the Periferia Cimarronas theatre, which explores how we reconstruct familiar experiences when we’re not at home because we’ve been forced to leave, and how each of us deals with prejudice, cultural anxieties and a sense of belonging when living in a foreign country. What physical and psychological barriers does a person have to break down in order to adjust to living among unfamiliar things? What new power relations emerge?

The Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey asks these and other questions in a project in which he puts his own body into a state of anxiety, the state of a subject affected by an identity crisis, searching for elements that will allow him to regain a sense of home, and forced to fight against the prejudices that the act of migration generates.

A project curated by Imma Prieto, director of the Antoni Tàpies Foundation.