La Virreina hosts from this Saturday until November 1st a strange duo formed by the playwright and actress Juana Dolores Romero and the artist Frederic Amat. She presents her first exhibition, Declaration of Love to Lenin, and he Vuit, an anthology of his collaborations with great authors. The curator of both is Valentín Roma, the center's director until a few weeks ago when he was elected as the new director of Macba. That's why the presentation was a recital of emotions, with some of Roma's colleagues at La Virreina thanking him for ten fantastic years of work. Frederic Amat has added poetry: he assures that if Roma were an animal, he would be a dog, because he has "an eye, a nose, and a fang". And Juana Dolores has thanked him for allowing her to work under unprecedented conditions. "I am not used to sharing a class with the directors who program me in festivals or theaters and I think it has become very clear here that, when a class is shared, one works from another place, and with another confidence," said Romero. "Insolence is no longer in the popular classes. Fascism is insolent, and perhaps what we should do is recover the popular use of insolence," Roma asked.

Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) will be the central figure in the programming at the Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona. The venue on La Rambla will dedicate an exhibition to him from March 28 to October 4, curated by Manuel Asín, coordinator of the film department at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and, between 2021 and 2025, artistic director of the Punto de Vista festival in Pamplona. Asín constructs the exhibition with previously unseen material, shooting notebooks, recordings, photographs, and paintings that form part of the director's personal archive.At the end of the getaway and ContemptMasterpieces of cinema and leading figures of the Nouvelle Vague. To gather and select the exhibition material, the curator has relied on the support of Godard's personal and professional circle, as well as several collectors.