Over three sessions in January 2025, BilbaoArte’s URIBITARTE40 Hall will offer the experimental mediation programme “30 people needed to build a mountain” by Jara Roset within the framework of the exhibition “Nobody Can Share the Flavour of Mint“, free of charge upon registration.
Practical information:
Dates: Thursday 16, 23 and 30 January
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Capacity: 15 people (free upon registration from 2024.11.26 through bilbaoarte@bilbao.eus)
Location: URIBITARTE40 Hall
(Paseo de Uribitarte, 40. 48009 Bilbao).
Highlighting a thing to make it known sets it apart from the others and lets it be remembered. Pointing to the sky and following the route of a seagull flying overhead. The finger’s movement when following a dove is not the same as with a sparrow. A movement in the air that impacts the earth.
In the context of the exhibition, Jara Roset will conduct three workshops on work and thought, guided by her text:
Toward a body: sensitive, grounded, scaled.
Perceiving is already stylizing.
Because perception is always action, and action
in this case becomes praxis; that is, it rejects
the abstractions of utility and does not accept
the sacrifice of means to ends, or appearance to reality.
The prose of the world.
—Merleau-Ponty
30 people needed to build a mountain is an encounter in three sessions. We will form a work group to experiment with the body and the gaze to lift and display images. By pointing to the sky, other people look upwards. The aim is to make out the reason for the lifting.
JARA ROSET (Madrid, 1998). In her uprooted drift through life, born in a city too vast to traverse in a single day, she currently resides in Bilbao. Her artistic practice intertwines with her daily life, as being sensitive to the world is her way of accessing reality to know, create, and be. The eco-anxiety she experiences drives her to understand the reasons behind the distances created by anthropogenic actions, their consequences on the land, and how these changes impact the life experiences of others.
Focusing on a sensitive ecology helps her approach and ground herself in her world. Jara believes that aesthetics have the power to create a shift in people. Becoming attuned to a world means drawing closer to it, unveiling layers of reality, and fostering empathy. When she explores these concerns, she does so in the company of and in dialogue with others, as she neither wants nor understands the reason to do it alone. To this end, she brings her body closer to objects, places, and images.