The Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona hosts until May 25 the exhibition Rodoreda, un bosc, which transforms Mercè Rodoreda's literature into a walkable landscape.
The exhibition presents Rodoreda's work as a symbolic forest with roots in exile, trunks marked by war and branches that dialogue with European culture. Visitors move through rooms representing layers of her literary universe, where recurring images such as spying, bodily transformation and the presence of death appear.
Contemporary pieces created for the occasion by artists including Èlia Llach, Mar Arza, Oriol Vilapuig and the collective Cabosanroque are combined with original documents from the Fundació Mercè Rodoreda archive. Curator Neus Penalba selected these interventions to reinterpret the author's narrative without simplifying it.
The show, on view until the end of May, aims to expand the reading experience through a visual language that reinforces the complexity of her 20th-century Catalan literature.
