e- Laia Solé and Nicolás Dunmit Estévez Raful, Intervention at Drawing Center in New York / Photo Thelma García
Roca Umbert
Carrer d'Enric Prat de la Riba, 77, 08401 Granollers, Barcelona, Spain
Date: Thursday, June 26
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Arts Space (La Miranda Room)
Laia Solé , artist in residence at Roca Umbert, offers an opening of the research process “Allò que no va ser: descartes i phantasmagories”, a project about artistic ideas and practices scorned or interrupted by interferences of life or the system. Solé invites the performer and curator Nicolás Dumit-Estévez, with whom she has worked and wandered through the Bronx and Upper Manhattan, to share her “great successes and famous failures”.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel 's career manifests itself performatively through creative experiences intertwined with everyday life. He has been a resident and has received grants from institutions such as PS1/MoMA, Yaddo, Smithsonian Institution, Hispanic Society of America, and MacDowell. Linda Mary Montano, an iconic figure of performance, has been his mentor in art and everyday life. Nicolás is the founder and director of The Interior Beauty Salon, a living organism located at the intersection of creativity and care. Born in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros in the Dominican Republic, he was baptized in 2011 as a Bronxite: citizen of the Bronx.
Laia Solé Coromina is an artist, researcher and educator. She is a resident at the Espai d'Arts Roca Umbert in Granollers. Her work has been exhibited at the Sala Zero of the Espai d'Arts a Roca Umbert (Granollers, 2025), at the Drawing Center (New York, 2015), at Cuchifritos Gallery (New York, 2016), at the Chirivella-Soriano Foundation (Valencia, 2015), at Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona, 2011), among others. She has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (2000), and a doctorate from Teachers College at Columbia University in New York (2018). She is currently a professor at the University of Vic.
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