Monica Buzali Kalach

LABA Project

Trenat: Weaving Memory, Objects, and Wounds

Installation (Sala Capelles, Convent de Sant Agustí)
LABA Live event:  Live storytelling and sensorial performance  (cloister gallery)

Trenat is an intimate journey into family memory, personal wounds, and collective identity. It explores the ambivalence of belonging and of being an outsider within one’s own clan, and the possibility of healing that rupture through objects, words, and sensory experiences. The project unfolds as a dialogue between what is inherited and what is reinvented; between tradition and rebellion, rupture and continuity.

The installation invites the spectator into a state of nostalgia and connection, guiding them toward their own memories and family history. Through words, objects, textures, and sounds, a personal story expands into a collective narrative and shared identity.

The work is rooted in the opening verses of Bereshit, when the world is created through the Word. Change begins at the moment of naming: words have the power to create, to destroy, and to re-create. Our memories live in textures, scents, tastes, and sensations—deep in the body. Yet inevitably, we bring them back through language: stories, words, narration. In telling, memory is reborn.