Un argument subterrani. Denise A. Aubertin, Joan Brossa, Henri Chopin, Maria Loboda, Henrik Olesen, Rosemarie Trockel; as part of the exhibition series Digues, cosa. Joan Brossa i els poemes objecte, Fundació Joan Brossa – Centre de les Arts Lliures, Barcelona, 4/11/2025 – 17/4/2026
Exhibition view. Photo: Roberto RuizJoan Brossa, Rondalla, 1988. Photo: Roberto RuizExhibition view with L’empleat (1989), and Rellotge (1991). Photo: Roberto RuizDenise A. Aubertin, Une saison en enfer/Illuminations. From the Livres cuits series, 1995-2011. Photo: Roberto RuizDenise A. Aubertin, Les armes miraculeuses. From the Livres cuits series, 1995-2011. Photo: Roberto RuizHenrik Olesen, Intervention into an ideological system (After Cildo Meireles) 2003. Photo: Roberto Ruiz Henrik Olesen, Intervention into an ideological system (After Cildo Meireles) 2003. Photo: Roberto Ruiz Exhibition view with Maria Loboda’s Omniabsence and Joan Brossa’s Burocràcia. Photo: Roberto RuizMaria Loboda, Omniabsence (detail), 2019. Photo: Roberto RuizJoan Brossa, Burocràcia, 1967. Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Digues, cosa (Say, Thing) explores the discursive and formal paths that have consolidated the arts of the object as a current of artistic creation and thought. Each exhibition presents a selection of Joan Brossa’s object-poems in dialogue with works by artists situated at the intersection between object and language. Rather than establishing a genealogy around Brossa’s production, the exhibitions identify zones of contact between artworks and objects that, both in context and in time, represent disparate positions. This disparity aims to build an underlying argument—a transversal, shared framework that broadens how object-poems are received today.
