Friday, October 31 | 18:00-22:00
LABA LIVE: Public Performances & Exhibition Closing Night
Convent de Sant Agustí

Exhibition on view: October 27-31, 17:00-20:00
Capelles del Convent, Convent de Sant Agustí, Comerç 36, Barcelona

PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION

Change is the only constant — and yet we resist it, fear it, crave it.
This year’s LABA Barcelona exhibition presents the creative outcomes of a year-long exploration of change — its paradoxes, resistances, and possibilities — shaped through months of study and dialogue around classical Jewish texts.

The 2025 LABA Fellows explore change as both personal and collective — a movement through body and belief, reflection and relation, the intimate and the political.
Their works confront questions of ethics, identity, and exile, tracing the fragile boundaries between the self and the world, within the complex realities of our time.

In La Mirada, Ofer Ronen and Michael Gadish ask: How can one dance in times like these?
The piece restores to music and dance their role as acts of resistance against despair, inviting us to close our eyes in order to truly see.

In Maya Geller’s short film, Will to live, this gaze becomes intimate: in a small community garden, a young child meets an older local gardener — a gentle tale of exile and rootedness, and of the possibility to keep growing even in unfamiliar soil.

In Cartografías del Viento, Michael Gadish, in collaboration with LABA fellow Fernando Cardona Pons, presents an illustrated book and storytelling game exploring how narratives are shaped by collective trauma, inviting us to reimagine diaspora not as loss but as home — a living condition of transformation.

In La Voz de Muchas Aguas, Eyal (Lally) Bitton creates an audiovisual poem where the search for a divine voice becomes a meditation on perception and surrender.
Sound fractures reality, dissolving the boundary between the listener and the world — not into darkness, but into a luminous, throbbing void.

In Shmita, Laura Sofía Hernández Gil offers a site-specific performance inspired by the biblical sabbatical year — a time to let the land and the self rest. Through movement, vulnerability, and honesty, she explores change as a process of release: when identity sheds its old form to be reborn anew.

In Trenat, Mónica Buzali Kalach creates an intimate, sensory space of memory and belonging.
Words, scents, and objects become threads weaving between personal wounds and collective identity — an act of shared remembrance and repair. Her installation unfolds as a dialogue between what is inherited and what is reinvented, inviting visitors to add their own fragments to the collective weave.

In Signs of Change, Fernando Cardona Pons transforms Jewish textual and symbolic heritage into the language of contemporary tattoo art.
Presented as a tattoo-booth installation, his work turns the act of inscription into a ritual of transformation — change made visible on the skin.

Finally, in Arqueología Especulativa de lo Bíblico, Gastón Lisak acts as an archaeologist of the impossible — excavating not soil, but scripture and imagination.
Through 3D-printed sculptures, he gives form to objects lost between faith, myth, and matter — translating absence into presence, and language into creation.

Together, these works compose a space of inquiry and transformation — an invitation to encounter change not as an idea, but as a living creative practice.

LABA Barcelona Artistic Director & Curator: Nathalie Kertesz
LABA Barcelona Resident Scholar: Dr. Zeev Maor

Organized by LABA Barcelona in collaboration with Convent de Sant Agustí