In the 2024–25 academic year, I took part in the En Residència programme, an initiative of the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and Consorci d’Educació de Barcelona, developed in collaboration with A Bao A Qu association. The project aims to bring contemporary creation into public high schools by fostering sustained, year-long collaboration between artists and students, with the goal of developing an artistic piece together.
In my case, I worked with a group of 14-year-old students (4th year of ESO) from Serrat i Bonastre High School, in a residency curated and coordinated by A Bao A Qu and Joan Miró Foundation.
The starting point for our project was colour, followed by form two elements we considered inseparable. From there, we began exploring how to occupy space and engage in a dialogue with the architecture of Joan Miró Foundation, questioning how our presence could transform the place.
It was an intense and meaningful process, filled with doubt, uncertainty, and moments of vulnerability as well as technical challenges, unexpected turns, and last-minute changes. But finally, the magic slowly unfolded and things began to align and take shape.
After many conversations, experiments, reflections, and shared intuitions, a collective piece emerged: a choral work that gathers the group’s diverse interests, techniques and sensibilities.
100 metres of fabric — manipulated, combined, intervened, stitched, unfolded, and carried together through the halls of the Joan Miró Foundation — as a tribute to art, to diversity, to cohesion, to shared work, and to the many forms of expression that can arise through collective creation.
