ELPIS (o un pessebre davui)", de Irene Vicente Salas

A living nativity is a series of scenes of latent waiting: the waiting for a birth, the waiting to make an offering, the waiting for the arrival, the waiting for worship, the waiting for the blessing, the waiting for a messiah… a whole people waiting for the great event. To wait, from the word esperançar (to hope). What waiting do we set in motion today? What is a hopeful waiting like at Christmas in the Born neighbourhood of Barcelona? Who are the characters who represent this nativity today? Where would we place ourselves? ELPIS (or a nativity of today) makes this altarpiece of living and active scenes contemporary and places it in the most ours possible today.