Secrets de fabricació

Manufacturing Secrets, the third show in the Digues, cosa cycle. Joan Brossa and the object poems approaches the construction of the object, both from its material side and from its conceptual side. Production and ideation define in this particular case territories that cannot be separated so easily. On the one hand, the exhibition includes sketches and documents that offer an intimate look at the genesis of the Brossian object poem. At the same time it includes works by artists in which the production of the object gives it meaning and guides its interpretation.In the copy of the magazine Algol that was part of Joan Brossa's personal library, the title of the poems he published there in 1947 appears modified. Although he originally titled them "Tres poemes purs", in his copy the word purs appears crossed out in pencil. In the introductory paragraph of this publication Brossa notes that, regarding the writing of poetry, one must avoid complex formulas: "If you wish, the secret consists only of knowing how to look." Thus, Brossa places himself closer to the observer than to the author and, at the same time, makes clear that the poet is not necessarily the one who uses the most sophisticated tricks, nor the one who writes in bursts of –pure– inspiration, but the one who knows how to pay attention and discern: the act of looking is equivalent to constructing.In the works that make up the show they use very limited procedures that give the object a poetic function. For example, through instructions or protocols, denying it its everyday uses or shifting its authorship. The works manifest an inseparable relationship between ideation and production; and the words, in their titles or in the description of the materials with which these works have been made, underline an opposition between manufacturing understood as a game of concealments or a secret, and manufacturing understood as a poetic mechanism.Marc Navarro is a curator and writer. He has curated exhibitions at Fundació Joan Brossa-Centre de les Arts Lliures (2025-2027), CA2M-Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (2023) and Fundació Joan Miró (2019-2021). He is the author of Llegir-ho ràpid. Una història de Sàpigues i Entenguis Produccions (TXT01, 2026), and has contributed to catalogues and publications of institutions such as Secession (2025), Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt (2025), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (2025), CCA-Prague (2024) and Artium Museoa (2023). He lives in Berlin.