Rodoreda, a Forest
By Charlotte Stace
The CCCB hosts “Rodoreda, a Forest” which explores the imaginative world of author Mercè Rodoreda. It invites visitors to step into the emotional and symbolic forest she weaves through language. The exhibition transforms the museum space into a sensory narrative, using visual art, multimedia and immersive design to represent Rodoreda’s themes of memory, identity and the intertwining of inner life with natural metaphors.
Through a selection of artworks and installations, the show traces how Rodoreda’s writing covers the complexities of human experience - love, loss, longing - by bridging reality and metaphorical forest landscapes. Each room becomes a chapter, a reflection of psychological states and poetic atmosphere, offering an interpretive experience rather than a traditional biography or retrospective.
The exhibition brings the author’s literary body of work into dialogue, and also incorporates original documents from the holdings of the Mercè Rodoreda Foundation, and photographs and contemporary works by artists such as Èlia Llach, Mar Arza, Cabosanroque, Oriol Vilapuig and Carlota Subirós.