Sunday 19 October, 10 to 14 h

Barcelona Dibuixa is an annual festival organized by the Barcelona City Council with the aim of bringing drawing closer to all citizens. Over the course of a weekend, museums, cultural centers, and other venues across the city offer free workshops and activities for people of all ages. It’s an opportunity to discover drawing as a tool for creation and expression, and to enjoy a collective artistic experience in different parts of Barcelona.

Applying the exquisite corpse technique, we will draw, write and paint collectively to create a joint piece that is mobile, sculptural, pictorial and practicable. We will build silhouettes of cossas in motion which we only know one part of – the rest will emerge from whatever the context inspires us and from the intuitions of those taking part.
The outcome of our joint creation will be revealed at the end of the workshop, when its artistic complicities emerge and the formal dialogues we have unknowingly been weaving materialise. This is a proposal to create art based on gesture, impression and shared imagination, always in visual connivance.

Activity in collaboration with Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació.

Carmen de Ayora (Valencia, 1968) is a visual artist who lives and works in Barcelona. Her work combines painting, drawing, installation and action through a critical, intuitive and poetic lens. Finding an interest in everyday fragilities, she works with simple materials and slow techniques as a way of showing resistance, and claims that clumsiness, ingenuousness and emotion are paths towards knowledge. Her work often unfolds in collaborative contexts or outside conventional circuits, displaying a feministic and political sensitivity. She has exhibited in spaces such as La Capella, Fabra i Coats, Halfhouse, etHALL and Galería Alegría, as well as having been a resident at La Escocesa and Hangar.