Kintos, de Fermín Sales

Every year, many towns in Catalonia, the Valencian Country and beyond celebrate the festa dels quintos: a ritual that marks the passage from youth to adulthood. Kintos takes this custom as its starting point to approach the forms of power, belonging, violence and representation that run through rural communities. The installation deploys a set of moving images, sounds, texts and actions that intervene in the codes of the festa, displacing them from their usual context and opening them to new readings. What is repeated year after year appears fragmented, altered and reconfigured, making visible the tensions that inhabit any collective ritual: between cohesion and exclusion, celebration and norm, memory and change. Far from a nostalgic approach, Kintos proposes an experience that invites us to reconsider tradition as a living space, traversed by conflicts, contradictions and possibilities of transformation. CONTENT WARNING: The exhibition includes references to violence, both explicit and symbolic. Some works contain images of nudity and of violence towards animals. These images come from archival material, and no animal was harmed on purpose for the project.