Oriol Fontdevila i Subirana (Manresa, 1978) is the new director of the Bòlit Centre for Contemporary Art in Girona. A curator, professor, and art critic, he has combined the management of cultural centers throughout Catalonia, such as the Sala de Arte Joven (Young Art Gallery) of the Generalitat (Catalan Government), with a solid academic career at the university. This autumn, Fontdevila has taken over the Ingrid Guardiola's replacement at the head of the three rooms of the Girona contemporary art museum, inaugurating the first exhibition Woman, Life, Freedom by the artist Tere Recarens from Arbúcies. The exhibition, which can be visited until February, respectfully addresses, with community involvement and a global perspective, the struggle of Iranian women for gender justice, featuring extremely powerful pieces, such as the painted carpet on the floor of the Rambla headquarters. It's a clear statement of intent that encapsulates the key principles of the new management: promoting local artists, education in democratic values, and alliances with social actors, all aimed at establishing Bòlit as a vibrant, accessible space committed to the realities of its surroundings.

Pere Noguera (La Bisbal d'Empordà, 1941) is one of the most solid and genuine voices of contemporary Catalan art. Capital exponent of thearte povera and the land art, has built over more than fifty years of experience a body of work faithful to humble materials, such as water, clay, and iron, always deploying a poetic discourse on matter, memory, identity, landscape, and the passage of time. Deeply rooted in his hometown, the capital of the Catalan pottery tradition, Noguera, the exhibition-installation Landscape. Clay Pulse, which can be visited until October 26.

This month of May Ingrid Guardiola (Girona, 1980) will close her period as director of the Bòlit Centre for Contemporary Art in Girona. She will do so after four very intense and fruitful years, in which she has carried out a host of exhibitions and activities on different burning issues of contemporary society, always exhibiting interesting pieces and with a very critical and powerful discursive line. Despite the unequivocally positive results, Guardiola has decided not to opt for renewal: exhausted by bureaucracy, procedures and the enormous amount of paperwork she has to deal with on a daily basis, she prefers to step away, at least for a while, from the management of a public institution of this magnitude. Her last months as director of the Girona contemporary art museum coincide with the publication of her second essay, The servitude of protocols (Arcadia), in which she reflects, forcefully but not fatalistically, on how the system of rules, conventions, patterns and algorithms determine our conduct and perception. Drawing on a wide range of philosophical and sociological references such as Foucault, Deleuze, Marcuse, Kracauer and Shoshana Zuboff, the book lucidly addresses the ecosystem of daily and specific protocols that, in the era of social networks, information technology and technology, affect us and affect us.