MARCEL·LÍ ANTÚNEZ ROCA

LLUM, NATURA CENTRUM EST

The exhibition llum, Natura Centrum Est brings together more than 300 objects from actions, parades, installations, and murals created—specifically and often by commission—between 2014 and the present. These projects, over a dozen in total, have been developed collaboratively.

This collaborative approach involves sharing the creative process with diverse groups—neighbors, vulnerable communities, associations, students, volunteers—so that each work emerges from encounter and collective experimentation.

Many of these projects, especially parades and actions, have taken place in public space, requiring a wide range of elements: carts, banners, giants, animals, costumes, heads, and flags, as well as “eyelid curtains”—large drawings that unfold like pop-up books, transforming as they open. This constellation of objects—alongside drawings and preparatory materials—forms the core of the exhibition, which adapts to the singular space of Tinglado 2 to propose a new reading.

The exhibition also includes new paintings by students from the School of Art and Design of Tarragona, based on the life of Llum de la Selva (1877–1983), a naturist farmer. These images form the first graphic biography of one of the figures from the Pòster Pagesos -Peasant Posters-, also featured in the show.

In recent years, both collaborative work and agroecological gardening have led me to rethink my relationship with nature. Beyond presenting recent works, this exhibition points to the urgency of restoring nature to the center of our cultural narrative. Through slogans, posters, and symbolic figures, it affirms nature as the core of life—a space of dependence, resistance, and learning.

I invite you, as you leave, to listen to what is alive—animals, plants, territories—and to recognize them as active participants in a shared story.