Arxiu Caníbal (Cannibal Archive)
Taca•Jan 16, 2026 — Feb 10, 2026
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In 2010, Mitjà undertook a residency at MIS (Museu da Imagem e do Som) in São Paulo, Brazil. This is the source of the reference to the cannibal present in the exhibition’s title: Oswald de Andrade’s decolonial theory that advocates swallowing and digesting European cultural influences from Brazilian territory. Global contemporary identity has become subsumed by the cannibal structure, and the hyper-appropriation manifested in the visual and aural textures that surround us. In Brazil, Mitjà produced the work Traduções do Original (2010), where he dedicated himself to imitating sonic textures using the rubbish he found on the streets of São Paulo, and the ephemeral and collective hubbub and commotion that defines it. Capturing and recreating the invisible textures that surround us contains the seed and signature of the artist’s cannibal practice: of chewing the chewed, of appropriating the reappropriated, archiving chaos within other chaos. In this sense, Mitjà’s pract…
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Arxiu Caníbal (Cannibal Archive)
Taca•Jan 16, 2026 — Feb 10, 2026
Press Release
In 2010, Mitjà undertook a residency at MIS (Museu da Imagem e do Som) in São Paulo, Brazil. This is the source of the reference to the cannibal present in the exhibition’s title: Oswald de Andrade’s decolonial theory that advocates swallowing and digesting European cultural influences from Brazilian territory. Global contemporary identity has become subsumed by the cannibal structure, and the hyper-appropriation manifested in the visual and aural textures that surround us. In Brazil, Mitjà produced the work Traduções do Original (2010), where he dedicated himself to imitating sonic textures using the rubbish he found on the streets of São Paulo, and the ephemeral and collective hubbub and commotion that defines it. Capturing and recreating the invisible textures that surround us contains the seed and signature of the artist’s cannibal practice: of chewing the chewed, of appropriating the reappropriated, archiving chaos within other chaos. In this sense, Mitjà’s pract…
