A media lumbre
- vie, 24 jul
- Es Baluard — Espacio B
- Plaça Porta de Santa Catalina, 10, Palma
“A media lumbre” (Gently Under the Flame) brings together a group of works that strike up in dialogue with materials and forms of vernacular knowledge conventionally looked down on as “minor arts,” such as ceramics, clay, wool, textiles, embroidery and natural fibres. And these materials are often coupled with sounds and silences. The voice emerges as a means of transmission, reclaiming oral tradition as a vehicle for memory, bringing to mind filandones, those old night-time gatherings around the hearth when stories were told as people went about their manual work. The exhibition unfolds as a celebration of living well and of the sovereignty of time, as an invitation to stop and reflect, to breathe deeply and to listen to the quiet murmur of matter. The works are grounded in a common premise: integrating these materialities entails the preservation of ancestral know-how, the recovery of overlooked narratives and the activation of other forms of knowledge. In this liminal space, tangible and intangible heritage are intertwined, as are technique and affect, gesture and narrative. The exhibition remains suspended in half-light as it follows the slow rhythm of manual processes and sha…