A Body on the Threshold of Summer
A Body on the Threshold of Summer is a short reading meant to bless those who gather to celebrate Saint John's Day, and to wish for a summer of kindness that allows us to see ourselves again with love in the reflection of fire and sea.
At a time when pressure on bodies has returned to the dangerous standards of the early 2000s-when eating disorders were widespread and deeply affected the happiness and lives of many people, especially those who understood their bodies through femininity-this small incantation invites us to reflect on the sacred nature of bodies and their function beyond aesthetic pressures that reduce them to mere image, to a flat surface through which inhabiting the world becomes impossible.
This communal reading (and perhaps writing) is an invitation to eat and celebrate our bodies together, restoring their volume through a political and loving gaze that reclaims summer as a time and space for play and beauty.
Mayte Gómez Molina is a writer, researcher, and new media artist who uses writing as the backbone of a multifaceted practice. She works with poetry and fiction in a traditional sense, creating "book" objects, while also exploring the expansion of literature into digital formats through film, 3D, and virtual reality. A Fulbright fellow (2019-2021), she completed an MA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2021, she held her first solo exhibition, Me veo la nuca, at the University of Granada, from which her first poetry book, Mi piel virtual, cansada, emerged. After winning several literary awards, she received the 2023 National Young Poetry Prize Miguel Hernández for her work Los trabajos sin Hércules. In 2024, she published the poetry book Circuito cerrado de vigilancia. She is currently part of the MAKE/SENSE doctoral program at the Academy of Art and Design in Basel, where she also teaches at the Institute of Art, Gender and Nature.
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Duration
45 minutes
Place
Cypress Garden
Dates
21 June 2026, at 1pm
Price
Free activity with no prior booking required
Supporting material
The 1pm session will have an interpreter in Catalan Sign Language (LSC).
