Courtesy of Lúa Coderch
Activity
Thursday, 16 April 2026
MURMURS VI. Lúa Coderch, Rama
A Walk Through Real and Imaginary Episodes of the Museum
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As part of Murmurs, a programme exploring the museum’s history through rumour and speculation, Lúa Coderch presents Rama [Branch]. This action is rooted in the desire to activate side stories and overlapping temporalities, shifting institutional memory towards more fragile zones, whether imagined or unresolved.
We move and wander collectively through the different spaces with a certain freedom, yet we also feel an increasing urge to stay close together. That is our intuition. As we walk, we engage in an exercise in evocation – bringing back memories – and invocation – attracting what has not yet been produced – through that act of listening. By means of voices and sounds, scenes set at various points in an imaginary timeline emerge, blurring the boundaries between the museum’s real history and fiction, between public statements and rumours, between myth and anecdote, between what is desired and what is feared.
The origin of our movement, and the thing that makes it possible, is fantasy: the simultaneous decline of the museum’s past, present and future, like the vibration of a restless branch containing all the driving forces and potential twists, turns, paths and deviations within its matter and growth.
In collaboration with Andrea Soto Calderón. Acknowledgements: Anna Borrell, Sílvia Noguer, Alberto Santos and Marta Vega.
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Lúa Coderch
Iquitos, 1982
Lúa Coderch was born in 1982 in Iquitos, Peru, while her parents were travelling. When she was one, they moved to Brazil and then to Spain when she turned five. After studying law for a year, she began to study sculpture at the same time, finally graduating at the Escola Massana and obtaining a PhD in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona. Currently living and working in Barcelona, Coderch uses a wide range of media and languages to conduct her conceptual and aesthetic research on ideas such as sincerity, value, deception and affection. With a powerful narrative element and a prominent presence of language, her work incorporates everyday objects, the epistolary genre, nature and the human voice, which often plays a central role. Her projects invite us to question reality and our place in the world, and our life in common with its latent philosophical and political implications.
Since 2010, Coderch has exhibited in the Capella de Sant Roc, Valls (2011), Fundació Suñol and Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2014), Art Institute, Vienna (2017), CentroCentro Cibeles, Madrid (2018), and Domus Artium, Salamanca (2020), among others. Her work is included in the collections of MUSAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León; Col·lecció d’Art Contemporani Cal Cego, Barcelona; Fundació Lluís Coromina, Banyoles; and MACBA, Barcelona.
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Since 2010, Coderch has exhibited in the Capella de Sant Roc, Valls (2011), Fundació Suñol and Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2014), Art Institute, Vienna (2017), CentroCentro Cibeles, Madrid (2018), and Domus Artium, Salamanca (2020), among others. Her work is included in the collections of MUSAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León; Col·lecció d’Art Contemporani Cal Cego, Barcelona; Fundació Lluís Coromina, Banyoles; and MACBA, Barcelona.
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