Exhibitions
Obro, obres
Margalida Escoda
GRANOLLERS
GRA Equipament juvenil
Plaça de l’Església, 8
From October 16 to November 30
Hours
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Tuesday – Friday, 9am – 1pm
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Monday – Friday, 4pm – 8pm
In contrast to the transparency, efficiency, and control that govern our relationship with the urban environment, Margalida Escoda’s work proposes a poetic and political interruption. Obro Obres is an invitation to look at the everyday differently, to disrupt the logic of utility and make space for intuition, drift, and estrangement.
The images gathered in this project take us on a journey through Granollers—its façades and streets—uncovering layers of urban memory that usually go unnoticed. Electricity meters, normally invisible or ignored, here become visual vanishing points, thresholds between the domestic and the public, the visible and the concealed.
The electrical installations that enter into dialogue with the photographs, though inoperative, highlight this tension between appearance and functionality. In this gesture of opening what is closed, of revealing what is usually hidden, the artist articulates a poetics of interruption—a form of resistance to the over-coding of urban space.
_ With the support of Exposa’t, programa de residències artístiques del GRA.
Margalida Escoda
In her creative process, Margalida Escoda conceives the act of walking as an essential methodology: a tool for exploring and understanding the territory through a mindful and sensitive gaze. This approach arises both from a personal legacy—passed down by her parents, who instilled in her the idea of walking as a way of learning—and from the influence of artists such as Perejaume or Janet Cardiff, who regard movement as a poetic and transformative gesture.
Her artistic practice is rooted in immersion in the landscape and attention to what usually remains at the margins. Escoda thus understands art not as a means of providing answers, but as a way of unveiling and amplifying what is “mysterious,” in resonance with the thought of John Berger. Through formats such as site-specific installation, artist’s books, sound pieces, or photography, she activates languages that open up our relationship with the sensitive dimension of our surroundings.
