From her hometown of Cabrils, by the Maresme coast just north of Barcelona, Josefa Tolrà has joined the ranks of artists guided by visions and inner voices. Though already acknowledged by the likes of Joan Brossa and Antoni Tàpies in the 1950s, she was only more widely rediscovered in 2014 and linked with other mediumistic creators like Madge Gill and Jeanne Tripier. Her practice has been labelled as primitivism, naive art, art brut and outsider art. Lacking any formal artistic training, she began producing work after the loss of her two sons, when she started hearing inner voices. Encouraged by a family friend connected to Spiritism, she began setting down these messages in writings and drawings. She used pencils and ballpoint and felt-tip pens in notebooks, sketch pads and other formats, as well as sewing embroideries. Her prolific body of work remains deeply bound to spirits, fluid and astral forces and the interconnectedness of the universe.