Picasso: Untitled / With Performing Arts: Nosotras Sin [We Without], by Lara Brown

Picasso: Untitled is a project of La Casa Encendida and the Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Foundation (FABA) curated by Eva Franch i Gilabert. The exhibition has the support of the National Commission for the Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso, and the collaboration of the Community of Madrid. The exhibition is part of the official program of the Picasso Celebration 1973-2023, with Telefónica as a collaborating company in Spain.

The development of this work revolves around the analysis of the idea of identity, the body and its transformation as an artistic medium and thought generator.

Nosotras Sin proposes moving through space by constructing new images, ideas and narratives that are undone, redirected and lost from the proposed logics, giving rise to new, different and unexpected ones.

“I fear that any gesture that happens there will become a representation of one and the other, that it will be connected with any word, with a cubist face, with a title, with an untitled gesture, with a declaration, with a name or a style. I suspect that it’s impossible for that not to happen. That when you put several things together, they inevitably affect each other. So I’ll try to make something happen that is unspeakable due to its constant evolution. It’s an Untitled, just in case. A synopsis almost without a synopsis. Or a synopsis that appears after. The readings will be as many as there are eyes in the room, as always.” Lara Brown.

Lara Brown is an artist, choreographer and dancer. Born in Burgos, she works between Madrid and Barcelona. She has been making and performing her own pieces since 2017. She understands creation from the investigation of movement as a generator of a poetic gesture. In recent years her work has focused on analysing the impact of folklore on the contemporary body. She obtained a creation residency at Graner, Centro de Danza y Artes Vivas, for her 2021 project El Movimiento Involuntario, and she performed her previous work, Bailar o Lo Salvaje at festivals like Quinzena Metropolitana, Bailar los Patios at Conde Duque, Festival Dansa Valencia, and others. In 2021 she received a Plastic Arts Circuits grant from the Regional Government of Madrid for her work Puede que haya maneras de acercarnos. She regularly works with the Centro de Danza la Caldera, collaborating in publications related to movement practices and developing tools to support artists.