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Curator: Valentín Roma It is difficult to understand the career of Frederic Amat (Barcelona, 1952) without considering the role that a good number of poets have played in its development…

La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, a centre dedicated to image and culture in Barcelona, hosts this exhibition which brings together various collaborations between the artist Frederic Amat and numerous writers, poets, playwrights and philosophers from the 1970s to the present day. The exhibition route encompasses works linked to the word, the stroke, the image and joint reflection. Among the elements that make up the rooms, a short film conceived expressly for this Barcelona space alongside Chantal Maillard stands out, in addition to materials generated from creative relationships with authors such as Mark Strand, J. V. Foix, Octavio Paz and Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

This proposal is aimed at both contemporary art enthusiasts and the curious interested in the confluence between literature and visual creation. The setup proposes an itinerary where the works and documents demonstrate how the artistic process is constructed through the exchange of epistles and questions with multiple senders. Visitors can tour the different rooms of the centre to examine this archive of multidisciplinary collaborations that define Amat's work in its relationship with poetry and writing.