Dora García reinterprets the concept of resurrection with the Tàpies Museum

BarcelonaThe Tàpies Museum has presented the third edition of the Extramurs project, which this year will feature the artist Dora García (Valladolid, 1965). She will present Timelines / resurrection, a proposal that will occupy public space with performances, public debate, memory walks, posters, films, and an intervention on the museum's facade. García, who lives between Oslo and Barcelona, aims to reinterpret the concept of resurrection by turning it into a political and critical tool. All this, to give voice to silenced people and rethink issues related to gender, violence, or memory in a collective action of struggle and resistance.

The Extramurs 2026 activities program will start this Saturday, July 4, at the Foyer of the Gran Teatre del Liceu and will end on November 29 at the Loops Festival. The project is organized by the Tàpies Museum, together with the Grec Festival, Eina University Center for Design and Art of Barcelona and with the collaboration of Cementiris de Barcelona, La Capella, the Filmoteca, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Loop Social and Mescladís and Tantàgora, as reported by the ACN.

With the idea of turning resurrection into an act of justice for historically silenced voices, such as trans people, the project recovers referents from the literary, musical, and political spheres in order to listen to them from the present and address current affairs. Among the prominent figures to be analyzed are the Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky —author of La chinche (1929), a key work for the performance titled El Bicho within the Extramurs project—, the LGTBIQ+ activist Sylvia Rivera —central axis of the action Corocuerpo of dissident femininities— and thinkers such as Walter Benjamin and Elias Canetti, and the Brazilian singer Gal Costa. The idea of resurrection also seeks to recover certain characters through a necessary exercise of almost divine justice, an exercise with which to “dismantle the everyday structures of oppression”.

The launch at the Liceu will be the presentation of the first session of Corocuerpo by Mari Lyn Diniz and Dora García, and the first chapter of El Bicho, with the participation of Erika Michi. The following day, the same space will host the second chapter with a performance defined as a timeline with an experimental seminar.

On Monday, July 6, the foyer of the Teatre Lliure de Montjuïc will host a conversation between Frau Diamanda and Diego Marchante. Afterwards, Plaça Margarida Xirgu will be the stage for the second session of Corocuerpo. According to García, this performance is a direct critique of the structural violence of cisnormative discourses, both heterosexual and homosexual, and reclaims ways of life that have been historically expelled from the public sphere. The incorporation of fragments from the song O amor, by the Brazilian singer Gal Costa, reinforces the idea of resurrection as justice: here, to resurrect means to "make visible silenced voices, excluded bodies, and dissident genealogies”.

Timelines / resurrection will continue with a summer camp for young people aged 13 to 17 from July 6 to 10. In October, the seminar Death and Resistance will be offered at Eina Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona, culminating in a tour of Montjuïc cemetery and including the presentation of the magazine Convit/e, dedicated to this edition of Extramurs. And as part of the Loop Festival, in November, Dora García's productions The joycean society (2013), Segunda vez (2018), and (Revolución, cumple tu promesa) Amor rojo (2024) will be screened at the Filmoteca.

At the Tàpies Museum, the artist's installation can now be seen, which has placed several letters on the facade windows that form the gilded inscription of the word resucítame. In parallel, posters with gold phrases will be placed at different points in Barcelona, on the advertising columns, to reach the viewer and engage them.