Jardí Interior: a project by Tinta Fina at Biblioteca Joan Miró
Monday and Friday: 15:30 h to 20:00 h
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday except 7 December: 09:30 h to 13:30 h and 15:30 h to 20h
Saturday: 10.00 h to 14.00 h
The artist Tinta Fina has been selected to carry out an artistic residency in one of Barcelona’s libraries as part of the Homesession Ex-Libris programme. This programme, in collaboration with Bibliotecas de Barcelona, aims to transform public libraries into spaces for contemporary creation.
During his residency, the artist has developed the project “Jardí Interior”.
The “Jardí Interior” is an ecosystem in the form of a chain of confessions and shared experiences. A trophic chain of equals between the contents of the library and the users who are linked to it. The proposal consists in effect of generating a set of graphic signs and placing them among the library’s books. These signs, in the form of expanded illustrations, refer to a personal memory or experience that an anonymous reader relates to a specific book.
There are many people who give a book, or a specific fragment of a book, a special meaning and importance, to such an extent that some turn it into a fetish: they are readings with which they have established a privileged bond, and to which they associate a sensation, memory or intimate experience. With “Jardí Interior”, the individual experiences of the readers become points of reference in the form of graphic devices. These are placed among the books in the library, so that other people can find them and consult them.
The project works in the form of a chain of stories. The readings, with which the readers have woven a unique relationship and which are available in the library, are the starting point. Illustrations generated by Tinta Fina are added to the books themselves, representing the personal experiences of these readers, thus generating a web of intimate stories.
These narratives, rooted in the readings offered by the library, form an emotional memory, which is shared with the people who visit the library and discover these signs among the books. The links with the books thus produce interpersonal connections in a random way: the randomness related to the consultation and borrowing of books. The project thus navigates from the individual experience of reading to the construction of a community of evocations.
The Joan Miró library will host the installation “Jardí Interior”. To make it possible, it has been necessary the collaboration of readers and several reading clubs and entities that have wanted to meet with the artist to share images, memories and personal stories.
“Jardí Interior” is a project by Tinta Fina (Nuria Inés) promoted by Homesession as part of its Ex-Libris programme in collaboration with Biblioteques de Barcelona and developed in the Joan Miró (Eixample) and Francesc Boix (Poble-sec) libraries, and La Capella, with the reading clubs and the organisations TraCE (Catalan Association of Traumatic Brain Injury and Brain Injury) and I Biscotti.
