That Which Is Not Named: Between Expectations and Suffering

Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts

That Which Is Not Named: Between Expectations and Suffering stems from the idea that imposed social expectations uphold the system, often at the cost of silence and suffering. Historically, femininity has been associated with the obligation to please, not to disturb, and above all not to speak or point out the forms of violence that traverse bodies and lives. Naming, however, compels us to observe and confront uncomfortable realities.

The exhibition brings together work developed by the artists Montse Morcate, Mireia Plans, Raquel Luaces, and Rebeca Pardo, partly during their residency at Roca Umbert and within the framework of the academic research project Contemporary Representations of Grief and Suffering: Visibility, Agency and Social Transformation through the Image (Generación de Conocimiento 2022 – Ministry of Science and Innovation). Through diverse practices such as installation and the photobook, the artists address everyday yet structural forms of violence related to motherhood, mental health, aesthetic pressure, technology, and mechanisms of social recognition.

With the participation of Montse Morcate, Mireia Plans, Raquel Luaces, and Rebeca Pardo

Texts by Nerea Campo
Graphic design by Núria Vila
Organized and produced by Espai d’Arts, Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts and the City Council of Granollers
With the support of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the European Union, and the State Research Agency / PID2022-137176OA-I00

Opening of the exhibition “That Which Is Not Named: Between Expectations and Suffering”
Exhibition by Montse Morcate, Raquel Luaces, Mireia Plans and Rebeca Pardo

Thu. 29.01.26 | 7:00 pm

Round table “Speaking to Transform: Women and Invisibilised Sufferings”
Activity related to the exhibition Thu. 19.02.26 | 7:00 pm

Guided tour of the exhibition
Led by the artists Sat. 28.02.26 | 12:00 pm

Presentation of the exhibition catalogue
With the artists and Nerea Campo Thu. 12.03.26 | 7:00 pm
Espai d’Arts

Family workshop Drip, splash, smear! Body and action painting to speak about what is not named Body and action painting to speak about what is not named Sat. 14.03.26 | 5:30 pm