La Vida de la Muerte, 2024 – Centre Cívic Guinardó
From January 7 to 31
Temporary – Barcelona Cultural District
Death is a lived experience that marks our existence and conditions our lives. It manifests itself in the greatest pain that shows the limits of words. It collapses, paralyzes, leaves lifeless even to the living. This exhibition portrays an emotional state of displacement. Death separates us from those we miss, from reality and from ourselves. The work investigates the vacant place, where absence results in a presence and reveals itself in the desire for repetition. It also questions what existence means and whether it ends with death. The deaths of others are ours, we are the living who live them. We are what we incorporate from the other, we adapt the characteristics of those around us, which is why death is never singular. Others also internalize parts of us in them and in their stories, taking with them a part of who we are and what we have shared. With the death of others, we lose external references and pillars that make up our identity. Thus, in mourning the other, we mourn ourselves, as we actually experience our own deaths.
Karolina Adamczak is an artist born in Poland and raised in Ireland, currently living in Valencia. His work explores feelings and emotions, questioning the emotional label imposed by modern society. In 2021,
Karolina graduated in Fine Arts from the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. He then practiced video and photography for a year with Paloma Muñoz at Sibèria Dansa in Barcelona. In 2023, he completed a master’s degree in Artistic Production at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
