It is an exhibition installation in which Labuena invites Nora Baylach, as photographer, Iker Nafta as creative and Igor Losada as make-up and hairdresser, to fill Montjuïc Castle with all the possible women who could live today, yesterday and tomorrow. The result: 6 timeless characters, embodied by the artist, texts taken from his fictitious diaries and a video installation that crowns the exhibition. Colibrí Studio and Hiruki Studio accompanied the artistic process in a second phase and led the implementation of the exhibition space.
How many women lived in the Castle of Montjuïc before it was conquered by Franco's troops? And then? What were their occupations? What was your rank? How were they considered by the people who lived in the castle? And put them outside? How were they considered socially? The Castle of Montjuic was inhabited by men, mostly soldiers, what relationship did they have with these women? Were there really women living in the Castle of Montjuïc?
Under these questions, Montjuïc Castle was filled with all the possible women who could inhabit it today, yesterday and tomorrow, with a timelessness expressly sought, embodied by the multidisciplinary artist Arantza Labuena.
The bloody, impure woman. The strong, dangerous woman.
The pregnant woman, reproductive object. The woman who is not a woman, invisible. The silenced, necessary woman.
The woman for being a woman, mutilated.
The piece was located in a space desacralized by the Catholic church and sacralized by the artist again, full of totally pagan iconography; turned into a space of worship and veneration through not only the image, but with objects, texts, a light that will remind us of the penumbra of candles and 6 totally timeless characters.
All the images are accompanied by an extract from the fictional diaries of these characters.
