El viatge invers: Un fresc sonor al romànic, a càrrec d'Ona Balló

For eight hundred years, the Romanesque murals of the Pyrenees formed part of the churches for which they had been created. The interior space that housed them, reserved for imagination, faith and transcendence, was the counterpoint to a living and changing exterior landscape. With the removal and transfer of the murals to the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, their conservation was ensured, but the balance between the symbolic and the earthly universe, between the visual and the sonic universe, was also broken. Separated from their original context, they came to be perceived as isolated images, and in this process they lost the atmosphere that surrounded them, an essential part of their popular identity.The exhibition proposed by Ona Balló in the MNAC's Romanesque art rooms, made of sounds that today inhabit the Pyrenean churches and valleys, moves between the apses of Santa Maria d'Àneu, Sant Pere del Burgal, Sant Pere i Sant Pau d'Esterri de Cardós, Santa Maria de Ginestarre, Santa Maria de Taüll and Santa Eulàlia d'Estaon. The route evokes the survival of what cannot be transported and attempts to bring about a kind of magic: the sensation that, for a few moments, the murals are reunited with their founding soul.Schedule of sound activations:From Tuesday to Friday: at 13:00, at 16:00 and at 17:00.Saturdays and Sundays: at 11:00 and at 12:00.The exhibition will remain inactive on open-day dates and on the first Sunday of each month.