Rodoreda, a forest - CCCB Barcelona Art Season, Exhibitions
12/05/2025 - 05/25/2026

The exhibition Rodoreda, a forest delves into the imagination of the Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda, one of the great novelists of the 20th century. The exhibition focuses on the radical nature of her work and proposes a journey through the major themes that permeate it, presenting them as a complex network of intertwined meanings, similar to the roots and branches of a tree.

Rodoreda's poetic work is full of recurring gestures and symbols, such as spying, keeping watch, dying, transforming and, above all, the recurrent presence of trees and botanical elements. Her literature uniquely combines the innocent and the cruel, the childlike and the macabre, the realistic and the fantastic. Immersing oneself in her work is embracing the unity of opposites, in which houses and gardens intermingle with weeds and dark forests.

The exhibition itinerary conceives of the space as a great tree, organically connecting the different rooms: from the roots of her exile and the experience of war, to the treetops that touch the sky, with works by contemporary artists inspired by her work.

The exhibition includes original documents, photographs, film clips and artworks by artists such as Èlia Llach, Mar Arza and Carlota Subirós, among others.