The Terranova Bookstore of Barcelona (Comte Borrell street, 99) will host on May 23 at 5 p.m. the presentation of Remigio, a self-published photopoemary that is born from the creative encounter between the Colomenc Pablo Alejandro and the Barcelonian Mireia Dolz.
The event will feature the reading of the poemary by Natalia Risueño, who will give voice to the texts of the new book in a shared dialogue with the authors.
Exchange of correspondences
Remigio emerged two years ago from an exchange of correspondences between the two artists, a game of stimuli, responses, and provocations that ends up configuring a common universe. The starting point is a series of poems "crossed by passion, wound, and fragility, written from a voice that only finds refuge in the word," say the artists.
This initial writing, intimate and raw, has opened the door to a process of shared creation that unfolds in different layers.
Photographs that marry with poems
The photographs, which appear later, do not illustrate the poems but respond to them. They are images that expand the narrative and generate a visual and poetic conversation that moves between reality and the territory of dreams. In this space appear "lovers, corpses, scars, relics and vestiges of the inevitably perishable thing," affirm the authors. “While she was writing, I began to photograph inspired by her texts," says Pablo Alejandro, who adds that what began as an intimate discovery ended up becoming a shared creative process.
All this configures the corpus of the book: a constant dialogue between two gazes that share the same sensibility towards love, beauty, and loss. The photopoemary thus constructs a fragmentary narrative where text and image do not seek to explain each other, but rather to tension and complete each other.
Between Barcelona and Santa Coloma
Regarding the authors, Pablo Alejandro (Santa Coloma de Gramenet, 1995) discovered photography in Paris during the last year of his university studies. Back in Barcelona, he came into contact with the photographic collective La Perversa, from which point he progressively abandoned the business world to dedicate himself fully to image and the photographic laboratory. His work, of an experimental and autobiographical nature, has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Also in his city, Santa Coloma.
For her part, Mireia Dolz (Barcelona, 1996) is a graduate in Psychology, combines therapeutic practice with writing, which she understands as a space for intimate exploration. In the word she finds a territory of play and emotional emptying, where she can work on desire and its fissures. Remigio is her first participation in a joint editorial project.
