A year after winning the first International Essay Prize "Gesture of Yesterday, Thought of Today," promoted by the Museu Tàpies and the UPF, the anthropologist and feminist activist Rita Segato (Buenos Aires, 1951) has returned to Barcelona to present the fruits of the award, the essay Tàpies and I. A reciprocal exegesis. In recent months, Segato has stirred controversy by stating that, in the wake of the Palestinian genocide, she considers herself "exhuman," as she herself recalls in the ARA, and emphasizes her desire "not to be part of this cursed species." Antoni Tàpies participated in the International Art Exhibition in Solidarity with Palestine organized by the PLO in Beirut in 1978. Now Segato has found a similar longing to his "to go somewhere else" in some of the works that are part of the exhibition. Tàpies. The imagination of the worldwhich can be visited until January 25. "There's a desire to go out, an exercise in playing, in extracting oneself, in messing with the field." Thus, Segato has been able to verify once again the understanding he has with Tàpies, although he has no longer been able to include this discovery in his essay on the artist. “I’m not an art historian, but I felt an immense affinity with him. To write about him, I started from that initial affinity, which is his disobedience, his tremendous disobedience,” says the author, known for having written about “the ethics of disobedience,” which she sees as “a drive,” a drive.