‘Els meus camins són terrestres', the retrospective dedicated to Marta Palau
The exhibition tells a story of exile and overcoming between textile installations and unpublished works by the artist.
One of the first visual artists to make feminism visible through autobiographical works. Marta Palau was one of those creative women ahead of her time who invented and imagined in order to create a better society. With an artistic career that ranges from painting to sculpture and engraving, Palau gathers her experience and transmits it in a direct way with works that embody life.
Els meus camins són terrestres is a retrospective dedicated to the artist Marta Palau (Albesa, Lleida, 1934 - Mexico City, 2022) which exhibits a representative collection of her creations. Works that, between fabrics and structural bodies, speak of exile and welcome. A contrast that marked the author's life when she had to take refuge in Tijuana (Mexico) during Franco's dictatorship. This scar that defined her biography contrasts with the possibility of generating life and new relationships, a contradiction that can be clearly observed in the exhibition presented by Museu Tàpies in collaboration with MUAC.
Through her works, Marta Palau revisits the pain of the migrant, as well as the vision of a land that is linked to exile and the need for refuge. With a dialogue of techniques in which the materials are of great importance, the artist reveals with fascination a vital journey of loss and discovery, of woundedness and healing. Els meus camins són terrestres includes painting, drawing, textile installations, objects and materials from her personal archive that confirm Marta Palau's great capacity for creation.
In particular, the textile installations on display are directly related to ancestral traditions of the American continent and symbolise her apprenticeship alongside textile masters such as Josep Grau-Garriga, with whom she developed the tapestry technique. Els meus camins són terrestres is a project that traces a restless life, marked by many challenges, establishing itself as the first major international exhibition after the death of the Catalan artist.
You can visit it until 17 August, when the exhibition will cross, emulating its creator, a whole ocean to establish itself at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. More information and tickets can be found on the website of Museu Tàpies.