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Dear people:

How is your summer beginning? I am encouraged but, honestly, also between the desire for self-exile and the celebration of the pride of being here, present and free, until new order. These days I have often wondered what the world would be like if we, the women, the children who come from their bodies, the non-normative people, the people living on the margins, governed the world together. Meanwhile, we continue to see our rights curtailed.

Because it is no longer science fiction that the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down abortion rights, and we can no longer forget that the first pride involving a large human community around the acronym LGTBQ+ (and today is commemorated with the fifty-third anniversary of the Stonewall riots), involved a lot of violence. And a lot of repression even today, still.

When I see the nonsense mounting and I witness very sadly the fact that we cannot celebrate our differences with pride and respect for contrast, I am relieved to know that deep down it is easy to remember what makes us so similar. But we have to want to remember. That is why (and for that), I come determined to share the projects that have been developing in the room and arrive with the summer, as the summer harvest arrives, to gather again around a table, to celebrate that we are here, to heal the disenchantment.

Let me also tell you some good news. Well, two: Ciprés and Search Engine, the last two publications of Chiquita Ediciones that I was telling you about in my last letter, have received the Arts Libris 2022 Award. A toast of cava to your health. And to the health of their authors: Laía Argüelles Folch and Louis Porter, for believing in the power of paper.

Thanks also to the jury composed of Isabel Bordes, director of the Reina Sofia Museum Library, Moritz Küng, curator and expert in artist's books, Gabriela Cendoya-Bergareche, collector and expert in photobooks, Pepe Font de Mora, director of Foto Colectania, Mabel Palacín, artist, and Antonio Alcaraz, director of the collection of artist's books and publications of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. I am still learning and practicing, like Claude Cahun who is heading this letter with a self-portrait, but –with consent– you can kiss me.

Follow me, there's more important things to come.
 👉 This Thursday, June 30, we open at 7 pm a very special exhibition as part of the Art Nou festival. "Sobremesa" (After-dinner Conversation) is the project of Liliana Diaz in collaboration with Xavier Barriga, creator of Turris bakeries, which explores the relationship between people and artworks through sculpture and bread.

To recreate what it means to share around a table, we take up this community dimension and reactivate the bonds created around the food, celebrating the expressions of affection that emerge here. In short, this Thursday you are invited to have a merienda, dear people, and you will be able to eat directly from the sculptures, for the pure pleasure of enjoying, sharing and celebrating.

 
👉  What a pleasure to know that this summer we will be at the Arte Santander fair with my dear Sara Agudo Millán. From July 16 to 20, we will be showing in the 30th edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair drawings of the artist in two series of records with an important poetic charge. One of them is "Registros de viento" (Wind Registers), the series of drawings made from the movement of a pen suspended on a sheet of paper. The wind manifests itself and the artist acts to make it visible, questioning in a certain way the authorship of the work.

In this case, the drawings have been designed site-specific for different locations in Santander, such as the Palacio de la Magdalena, the headquarters of Banco Santander in Paseo de Pereda, the surroundings of the Cabo Mayor lighthouse or the Parque de las Llamas. The portion of time captured in the drawing invites us to cast off and let ourselves be swayed by the wind, to open our perception to the opportunity to see things from another perspective. In this video, the process is beautifully shown.

 
🚀 This last weekend was the opening in Madrid of "Brillo y Fantasía", the exhibition of Lusesita and Sergio Mora, for which they have become B-series superheroes with the aim of treating disenchantment. It has been a pleasure to participate and curate from Chiquita Room the first exhibition of this wonderful couple as an artistic duo.

Today I say goodbye with the Manifiesto Brillofantástico, which exposes the principles of this crusade in which Brillo and Fantasía are embarked to fight toxic energies and contemporary stupidity. If during the summer you visit Madrid, do not forget to visit Cerquone Gallery to see the exhibition, sing and scare away your troubles in karaoke and take a copy of the fanzine that we have published for the occasion.

 

With love, 
Chiquita 


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