Elena del Rivero. "La Quema" at Extramurs

08.07.2025 | 19.30 h | Jardins de Rubió i Lluch del Centre d’Art La Capella | Barcelona

Elena del Rivero will participate in the 2025 edition of the Extramurs project of Museu Tàpies (in collaboration with the Festival Grec, Eina Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art, Centre d’Art La Capella, Basílica de Santa Maria del Pi, Galeria Senda and Loop Festival) with her project curated by Mateo Feijóo: La Quema.

**What is Extramurs?**

Extramurs is a project of Museu Tàpies that was born from the collaboration and exchange between different creators, collectives and institutions, with the aim of rethinking the city as a space for enunciation and intervention. It is a proposal that invites reflection from practice and action from reflection, focusing especially on public space and the environment. It opens up a critical space to analyse our surroundings and explore ways of inhabiting the world in a more conscious, inclusive and attentive way to time and space.

The project is based on the idea of turning the walls of public space into supports for citizens’ voices: surfaces where collective discourses are inscribed and shared experiences are reinterpreted, responding to the urgencies of the present.

**What is La Quema?**

La Quema is a project of Elena del Rivero promoted by A Casa do Pozo that began in Galicia, where the artist burned her work in October 2024, after it had been exhibited in private homes and spaces in the town. This action, documented in images and sounds, is the starting point of a proposal that explores destruction as a form of purification and renewal, transferring this gesture to the urban and architectural space of Barcelona.

The project includes the bell concert L’espai alliberat, by Llorenç Barber, with the participation of music students from the ESMUC and the Barcelona Municipal Conservatory of Music, among others. This concert will be held on 8 July at 7.30 p.m. in the Rubió i Lluch gardens of the Centre d’Art La Capella, as part of Festival Grec, and will serve as the opening of the 2025 edition of Extramurs.