Inhabiting an Artwork. Body, Perception and Expanded Sensibility
To inhabit is precisely to expose ourselves: to remain open to what arrives, without prefiguring it. Miró's forms - signs, stains, schematic figures, lines, constellations - do not constitute a closed symbolic language. They are forms in the process of becoming, in the strongest sense: not what already is, but what is still taking shape. The artistic object thus becomes a rhythmic body, traversed by tensions between fullness and emptiness, appearance and withdrawal, stability and imbalance.
To inhabit is an original aesthetic experience - sensitive and affective. It is the primary mode of bodily existence. Bodies, both human and artistic, do not pre-exist space; they come into being through inhabiting it. In this sense, aesthetic experience is inseparable from an implicit ethics: knowing how to make space for the other, accepting what we cannot control, and remaining open to experience without trying to fix it permanently.
When do we cease to be spectators and become inhabitants of an exhibition or an artwork? To inhabit a work - or to allow it to inhabit us - is to accept this condition: to exist as a body in rhythm, as a presence always in process, always in relation.
Julia Lull Sanz is an art historian, educator, curator, and feminist activist. She holds a PhD in Image Theory from the University of Barcelona. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of Humanities at Pompeu Fabra University. Throughout her professional career, she has focused on researching new methodologies for approaching images, as well as designing artistic projects conceived as spaces for encounter and for the development of critical and creative thinking through alternative and feminist practices. She has collaborated with various art institutions, incorporating gender perspectives into both collections and programming. This work has resulted in the creation of mediation and educational projects specialized in the design of critical and pedagogical content. Since 2012, she has been part of the FEMART collective, a project for exhibitions, training, and artistic practices based at Ca la Dona. In the same vein, since 2020 she has been a member of the core team behind ULLAL, the transfeminist photography festival of Barcelona.
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Duration
1 hour
Place
Joan Miró Collection Rooms
Dates
21 June 2026, 5 pm
Price
€5 / €3 with library card or Friends of the Fundació Joan Miró
Supporting material
At 5pm. Rereading. With radio guides, headphones or individual loops. Accessible for oralist deaf people. This should be indicated.
Reservations
Online tickets (coming soon)
