I romance, II martinete, III debla and IV pregón (SP)

In these four volumes, artist Isaías Griñolo presents projects in which he relates memory, poetry, economy, ecology and other themes through the compilation and conglomeration of heterogeneous materials and sources. His work combines in a singular manner the political, the visceral and activism. A mixture that mirrors what happens in the meetings and mobilisations. In Romance de las plazas (2013, 2016), published on the occasion of the exhibition Contra Tàpies in 2013, the artist travels through different emotional and ideological spaces, collecting the words and images of their inhabitants before they are absorbed by forgetfulness, presented as a compilation of texts, images, poems and conversations. In 2014, Martinete de las calles was published, a compilation of materials on the contemporary Spanishness of express eviction. This is a grotesque and distorted view of a country that expressly enshrines the right to housing in its constitution while using riot police to evict families. Political violence and the power of the word continue as protagonists in the experimental research debla de la noche (2016) published with the support of BCN Producció ‘15, La Capella, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, on the occasion of the exhibition Visceral Blue in 2016. This work brings together situations around the Corrala de Vecinas La Utopía in Seville, a group of 32 families who have been fighting for two years against evictions and for the right to housing. Finally, in 2021, he presents Pregón de las patrias: a collage exercise that reflects on enactment, the construction of discourse and liturgy, and its performative, poetic and semantic manifestations. It is a project published by ICAS as part of the exhibition Memoria del presente, curated by Joaquín Vázquez – BNV Producciones, which took place at the Sala Atín Aya in Seville in 2020.