“Body of Archive” is an artistic research residency jointly developed by Museu Tàpies and Graner – Centre de creació de dansa i arts vives. It seeks to create a space for exchange and experimentation between body-centered artistic practices and the museum’s exhibition content linked to its collection. The project stems from the shared commitment of both institutions to foster artistic research, activate critical thinking, and generate new narratives through interdisciplinary practices. This residency offers the selected artist the framework, time, and resources to develop a research process with the methodological, technical, and curatorial support of both institutions, culminating in a public presentation at the end of the residency. In this first edition, the exhibition around which this artistic research residency revolves is Antoni Tàpies. The Perpetual Movement of the Wall, on view from 12 February to 6 September 2026.
The project selected through the public open call for Body of Archive 2026 was MUR MUR I ZO by Georgia Vardarou and Nathalie Karagiannis, a kinetic and poetic exploration of the exhibition “The Perpetual Movement of the Wall” at Museu Tàpies. It is a collaborative investigation into movement and stasis between two artists coming from different contexts (dance and visual arts/poetry), and it unfolds through three entry points: the repetition of the wall motif in Tàpies’s work and its implications, the relationship between body and memory (memory as a mortal archive or as creative vitality), and the interaction between the two of us.
The research process culminates in a public activation at Museu Tàpies on Wednesday, 10 June 2026, at 6 pm.
