Exhibitions
Montserrat Senserrich brings her memory, nature and resistance to Sabadell
From engraving to photography, her work celebrates nature, memory and the female voice.
From March 5 to June 21, the Sabadell Art Museum, led by Montserrat Senserrich, is exhibiting Narrating in Silence: Memory, Nature and Resistance , curated by Montserrat Pérez.
Montserrat Senserrich, a Catalan painter, ceramist and illustrator, started making ceramics in Sabadell. At a point, much later, she learned to draw and has done so until now. She herself says that she does not know how to define herself “Maybe because I have touched too many things”. At eighty-seven years old, she is in an enviable creative plenitude, challenging the idea that innovation is the heritage of youth. “Since my beginnings are late, now I am in my creative half”, she jokes, claiming a career that began after the age of forty, already married and with children.
The exhibition is not a simple retrospective, "I continue to make new works" she explains. It is a living testimony of an artist who has moved between domestic life and art, turning everyday life into poetic matter. Senserrich, who defines herself with difficulty because of her multidisciplinary nature, "I have touched too many things", she says, presents a work where engraving, ceramics, drawing and photography merge.
Senserrich's artistic journey is deeply linked to the territory. From her childhood in Vallvidrera to her maturity in Sabadell, passing through the landscapes of Rellinars, the Vall d'Aran or Menorca. One of the highlights of the exhibition is her relationship with trees and nature, which represents a stage in her artistic life. An example is the birch in the garden of the Taulí hospital, which she immortalized during the hours of waiting for her husband, or the centenary fig tree of Llimpet in Menorca, which presides over a space of reflection in the room.
The exhibition expands beyond the Art Museum, reaching the Academy of Fine Arts and the Illa School, where Senserrich has been the most senior student since 1990. There you can see a mosaic of 250 photographs of the sunrise. This daily ritual was born the day after her mother's death; since then, each dawn has been captured as a victory of light over grief.
Montserrat Senserrich, in full artistic maturity, teaches us that art is a form of patience. When leaving the Museum, visitors can take away stones with messages. One of them summarizes the spirit of the author: “I will be sand”. A declaration of humility from a woman who has turned silence into a pioneering and courageous voice, and who celebrates the creative female voice.
