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“Every seed already holds a premonition of what is to come.”[1]
Perhaps the origin of a particular artistic practice is nothing more than the invention of a problem. Rafa Forteza (1955, Mallorca) carries problems with him, from place to place. “Untamed mind,” read one of the recent drawings hung in his studio during the preparation of this exhibition...
He also carries seeds. Some in his pockets, others resting on the studio table, among wood shavings or paint stains. They don’t always germinate, but they mark a rhythm. Sometimes, they grow where least expected. In his new exhibition at the Museu de Pollença, these seeds come together as if preparing an offering. A way of laying something before us: a gesture, a trace, a question, a problem.
María Zambrano imagined thought in vegetal terms, as something that grows slowly in the shadows, rooted in the invisible. For her, thinking was not about building structures, but attending to what germinates: allowing what is already latent to find…
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“Every seed already holds a premonition of what is to come.”[1]
Perhaps the origin of a particular artistic practice is nothing more than the invention of a problem. Rafa Forteza (1955, Mallorca) carries problems with him, from place to place. “Untamed mind,” read one of the recent drawings hung in his studio during the preparation of this exhibition...
He also carries seeds. Some in his pockets, others resting on the studio table, among wood shavings or paint stains. They don’t always germinate, but they mark a rhythm. Sometimes, they grow where least expected. In his new exhibition at the Museu de Pollença, these seeds come together as if preparing an offering. A way of laying something before us: a gesture, a trace, a question, a problem.
María Zambrano imagined thought in vegetal terms, as something that grows slowly in the shadows, rooted in the invisible. For her, thinking was not about building structures, but attending to what germinates: allowing what is already latent to find…













