MORTALS+

MORTALS is an artistic and research project on death, illness, cures and life, which seeks to create spaces for collective research and experimentation through the activation of multidisciplinary working groups.

The aim of MORTALS+ is to build a kaleidoscope of diverse experiences and perspectives that allow us to explore the relationship with AIDS today and recover the material and immaterial legacies that have permeated since the outbreak of the pandemic. The project focuses on the creation of an artistic research group made up of people related to HIV, clinical researchers and doctors to analyse the evolution of social perceptions of the pandemic, the role of patients in the advancement of treatments and the social factors that determine therapeutic adherence. It also addresses premature ageing and the risks of comorbidity associated with the disease.

This research will also draw on a selection of works from the Suñol Soler Collection, which, due to their subject matter, context or chronology, may influence the recovery of the intangible legacy associated with the collective imagination of the disease.

MORTALS is a participatory research and collective creation project, the result of a collaboration between the artist Albert Potrony, born in Barcelona but who has been developing a career in London since the 1990s in artistic projects involving audiovisual language, installation, experimentation with participatory processes, play and co-production, and Roser Sanjuan, a cultural manager and artistic mediator specialising in participatory and social art.

Collaborators: Dr. Dani Podzamczer (Hospital de Bellvitge), Dra. Júlia Calvo (Hospital Clínic), Sr. Agustín Marcos (Hospital del Mar), Casal Lambda, Ca la Dona, Gais Positius, ONG Stop, Supervihvents, Creación Positiva, Dra. Teresa Puig, Rubén Mora d’ONG Stop, Juan Tallada d’ACT UP BCN, Maria Luisa García i Margarita Maragall de Creación Positiva, and Eva Vela and Joana Rita de Bollos en teoria / Ca la Dona.