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**CASA**
Marina Ramoneda, sculpture,
and Eduard Finestres, sonorous abstraction
from 2 to 10 february 2007

She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled `ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it was empty:  she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it. 

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
...................................................... Lewis Carroll

In this fairy tale, Marina Ramoneda is a disorientated Alice, searching for a house out there to call her own. She finds many: an entire city in fact, houses with no doors or windows, cage houses and nest houses, compact houses and morbid houses. Impossible houses.
If Marina is the Alice who one minute bursts out of the walls and has to stick out through the chimney and the next she feels lost and small under too high a ceiling, Eduard Finestres is the rogue cat that looks at her, smiles and disappears.
With the project Casa, the tandem Ramoneda-Finestres work together for the first time. It wasn’t by chance they discovered each other. Both, undisciplined artists, have an interest in the habitable space, in the city and the terrain vague. Together they are able to build meticulous gold thread houses or to set the city on fire while they run away amused, holding hands.
In this project Marina leads from the piece Mi casita bonita (My pretty home), presented for the first time in her penultimate exhibition, Ratoncito feroz (Fierce mouse) (MX Espai, Barcelona, May 2006), and creates a whole image about the house as a multiple concept: “The house is”. She keeps her favourite technique, working with fabric, but she also incorporates new materials.
Eduard takes the essence of bodies, of everyday objects and daily situations, he breaks them up, transforms them and rebuilds them through sound.
“Casa” is a common project. An oneiric journey of naïve and sinister shapes. A two heads tale with a happy ending and a bitter aftertaste.

................................. Maria de Vallibana, January 2007


 

 

MARINA RAMONEDA & EDUARD FINESTRES