Presentation of the project The boy in the well 2018

Presentation of “The boy in the well” / Installation by the participating artists and live music by Vito Mardaras.
Saturday, November 11 at 7 p.m.
Can Monroig, Inca
Free entrance

Wells, damp and terrifying places, paths that take us deeper, earth torn from the ground until we find what we are looking for.
Adults sow fear as a control strategy, they avoid conflict, but what tools does a child have when he has already fallen into the pit? Why does our mind unconsciously lead us to think of the pit as a dangerous place? When do we stop seeing the pit as a source of life and turn it into something dark? What connotations do we give to the word pit?
A few months ago the artist Katharina Pfeil came to one of the sessions of “It’s just paint” with an idea in mind: to work around the German saying “Wenn das kind (schon) in den brunnen gefallen ist… was gibt es dann zu tun?” which can be translated as “The child has fallen into the well, now what do we do?”
This is the germ of a collective project multidisciplinary conceived and carried out in Can Monroig around the reflections, sensations and emotions that the idea of the well provokes in artists Abraham Calero, Katharina Pfeil, Manuel Santiago, Marie-Nöelle Ginard Féron, Robert Lopez Hinton and Vito Mardaras.
The boy in the well It is the result of 6 months of collective work, meeting every Thursday evening. Each one developing his own personal project, contaminating the work of others and at the same time nourishing himself from it.
Damp and sad wells, comfort zones, cracks in our memory; holes from which we cannot get out without help, or which we do not want to leave.
Dignify the forgotten, serve as a channel to show what has been deposited underground. Jump into the well, let yourself fall, abandon yourself. Destroyed voids, sounds of homicidal claustrophobia that we all are. Symbolic, real, mental wells; wells that bury historical shames.

Text: Abraham Calero

Location: Can Monroig
Can Valella Street No. 22, Inca, Mallorca (See on google maps)
Date: Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.
Free admission
Not suitable for minors
Please be punctual
The exhibition can be visited until December 8th
Monday to Friday from 6 to 8 pm
More information tel 609167768 (Noëlle)

Can Monroig It is a private space managed by Robert López Hinton and Marie-Noëlle Ginard Féron, dedicated to architecture, restoration of old houses and interior design, which independently hosts cultural events such as dance, teatro, art or music, among others.