Tòrax, thorax

Tòrax, thorax is a performative reading by Eulàlia Rovira, created in collaboration with Anna Fontanet and built around a strange encounter: a baby representing a body that cannot yet stand or talk appears before Roman vestiges embodying a legacy of domination, hierarchy and separation.

In this encounter, the piece observes how language falters when confronted with a body that knows nothing of the frameworks of Western thought or exclusionary paradigms. It is a body that has emerged from another body and still lives in the belief that the two are one and the same, or perhaps that there is no such thing as skin keeping us apart, no name that allows us to differentiate ourselves, no hinge or axis that sets us in opposition, and certainly no axis mundi, no castrum, no cardo maximus.

From this collision between an unfurling body and ruins that still uphold the world, Tòrax, thorax begins either to take shape or to lose it.

Activity curated by Marta Pol Rigau

With the participation of Eulàlia Rovira

With the collaboration of Anna Fontanet


Eulàlia Rovira

Her practice examines the ways in which certain Western forms of defining and ordering the world become inscribed in bodies, environments and words. Through installations, sculptures and performances, she has explored questions such as gravity, vision, surface and inert matter, proposing a perceptual plasticity that resists fixed certainties. She has received the Government of Catalonia’s grant for artistic creation and research, the Barcelona Crea grant and the GAC Award. Since 2013, she has worked alongside the artist Adrian Schindler, who shares her desire to shift the perspective of both the observer and the narrator.

www.eulaliarovira.info


Anna Fontanet

Anna Fontanet develops her practice between the body, sound, light and digital sound arts. Her starting point is listening as the driving force for creation, and she investigates self-generative devices that activate soundscapes and lightscapes in real time, in dialogue with voice and gesture. Her stage language is poetic and sensorial, focusing on fragility, perceptual tension and presence as a form of resistance. Her latest piece, N. A. N., premièred at the Mercat de les Flors in February 2025 and was later presented as part of the Santa Mònica’s “Sound and Body Wednesdays” series.

www.annafontanet.com