Exhibitions
Feel/Express: the dialogue between emotion and form
An exploration of the link between intimate experience, heritage and artistic expression at the Girona Art Museum.
The Girona Art Museum presents today a new proposal that invites us to think about the link between what we feel and how we represent it. Under the title Feeling/Expressing, the exhibition brings together the work of four artists — Ricard Aymar , Francesca Riu , Tura Sanglas and Jordi Tolosa — who, through various formats such as installation, drawing, sculpture or textiles, offer personal perspectives on emotions such as sadness, fear or hope. The project, curated by Fina Duran and Mercè Pomer , is structured as an invitation to recognize what we feel, to put words, shapes or gestures into it, and to understand that, despite being personal experiences, emotions also have a collective dimension.
Llàgrima, Ricard Aymar (2008)
The exhibition can be visited until November 2, and will then travel to other cultural spaces: Can Manyé , in Alella; the Palau Foundation , in Caldes d'Estrac; and the Cerdanyola Art Museum . At each stage, a link is established with a heritage piece of the place, which serves as a starting point for one of the works produced especially for the occasion. Ricard Aymar starts from the poem Ombra d'Anna, by Josep Palau i Fabre, to investigate loss (Palau Foundation); Francesca Riu dialogues with El nen i l'estel, by Marian Espinal Armengol, and reflects on hope (Cerdanyola Art Museum); Tura Sanglas is inspired by a Romanesque capital from the Girona Art Museum and questions the ways of looking and seeing; and Jordi Tolosa interprets the Riera Fosca d'Alella, an image of the geography of the surroundings of Alella that connects the land and the sea (Can Manyé Art and Creation Centre). Furthermore, this becomes a metaphor.
One of the guiding threads of the proposal is, therefore, the desire to establish a dialogue between contemporary creation and the artistic heritage of the spaces that host the exhibition. This intersection of time and sensibilities highlights how certain emotions have been represented throughout history in different ways, and invites us to look at them from new perspectives.
Encaix, Tura Sanglas (2024)
With this journey, the exhibition defends the need to put emotions at the center as a fundamental part of our way of being in the world. They are responses that arise from experienced or imagined situations, which can evolve, transform and take very different forms depending on the moment or the way we look at them. And at the same time, Sentir/Expressar proposes that, although emotions often arise from personal experiences such as love, passion or desire, these do not cease to have a shared dimension, since they interact with the environment and with other people. It is in this dialogue between the individual and the collective, between what we feel and what we express, where art becomes a tool for transmission and reflection.
Esperança, Francesca Riu (2025)
