textos en anglès

1. Ester Cabrera Solé Resilio: "going back, surviving, risking, stressing, violence, abandonment, jumping and jumping again, starting again, recovering, overcoming..." A concept strongly related to humanity, which links many words to its meaning. We are able to question our own perception, and turn one thing into something new. Images are an useful resource to find meaning to what we want to say, without telling too much. Irony is the tool that helps us find meaning to the hidden place of things.

1. Laura García It is essential to take on a resilient attitude from time to time, so as to adapt to diferent circumstances in life. I believe that my closest friends have experienced some tough situations which they have had to learn to deal with. Using an illustration and comics aesthetic,  I’ve depicted the stories of these people, the trouble they have dealt with, and the strategies they have followed to overcome it.
2. Alba del Valle  A shock in our reality. A mesh that constantly enlarges, to the point that it can no longer be warped anymore. We are matter, one that changes and breaks. This is the process which allows us to get out of what links us to pain, stress, loss, change or failure. It leads us to create a transformed version of ourselves. It is not an improved version, neither one that could reward us, because we can't ignore the catastrophe, neither break, only reintegrate and restart. We have survived this risk.
3. Tamara Sala Ablameiko I don’t make scans of medical prescriptions, tea bags and plants by chance. Overcoming the small diseases that unexpectedly attack us in our daily lives is a way of preventing frustation. My aim is to identify what gives us a sense of discomfort on an emotional scale and catalog it through concrete symbologies. I've chosen it conscientiously, accepting my usual pains, like a cold, a tummy ache or menstruation. I tried to appreciate reality as objectively as possible through irony.
4. Paula C. Galán We all have emotional scars that define our lives. The losses in our family, the experiences and sufferings that build up as time goes by. But all these wounds can also act as reminders of the battles that we won, reminders that we still exist. It is up to each of us to confront our problems with determination, without being carried away by the waves of a strong storm. It is about healing one's wounds and extracting something positive and reinforcing from them. It's about writing our history and ourselves using our own scars.
5. Silvia R. Turmo We can consider the Japanese technique known as kintsugi as an oriental interpretation of the concept of resilience. Kintsugi is based on repairing broken ceramics highlighting the cracks with a mixture of resin and gold. It is about  beauty inside imperfection, which tells the story that this object has experienced. I take this idea and I translate it to the human body to make its fragility and resilience ability stand out. From the wabi sabi point of view, beauty is found in the shadows, simplicity and naturalness.
6. Maria Gorgoll Flashing images that twist and blend with strong smells and soft noises, to flow forming a puddle inside the head, mixing with blood and past wounds. In this damp and dripping corner, memories build up. The mass becomes sticky and starts to meander, it stretches out indefinitely, without breaking, and it encircles us until we drown. We resist because we want to be alive, but we are only feeding this burden that suffocates us, creating a fragile equilibrium on which we become slaves of ourselves.
7. Eric Duran I am exploring the social, politically-influenced representations of second-generation migrants, in order to open a critical debate. I analise three fundamental bonds —society, family and individual bonds— which can subvert according to the own-experience circumstances. In addition, I decompose my face with strokes, to represent the social rejection that we all impose in ourselves. I consider it essential to become aware of our own acts from a positive perspective.
8. Ainize Castillo A torn apart image which represents the so-called survival of the fittest. The first one exerts an action and leaves a print in the urban jungle. The second one acts in dominance and rises above. The first one, active and highly adaptive, regains its place and is returns to the centre of a ruthless, merciless world. These dynamics are constantly repeated in a wide variety of shapes and spaces. Is it all about adapting to the neo-liberal environment, searching for the ecstasy of the competence?  Or maybe pursuing a possible cooperation that promotes the evolutive advantage? Is it a combination of both or neither?
9. Etna Alonso Carulla History, ancestors and memories will always exist, as long as we bring them back to present so as to avoid oblivion. This story highlights the past using unused objects. My great-great-grandmother went blind after an abortion in 1931. She lived in Barcelona, and after becoming aware of the unpossibility of healing her sight by several doctors, one of them advised her to return to her birth town. Few years after, the Civil War irrupted, and she was in charge of cooking, cleaning and sewing for the military of the area. It was thank to this that she nor her children were stuck by hanger, as her husband was recruited. Her personal objects show her ability to overcome difficulty, and they are both solid and emotional evidence of the bygone days. Positive-thinking, perseverance and constance. After a while, she progressively recovered her sight.
10. Paula Pozo The thread, used as a literal and metaphorical repairer, heals the leaves rejected by the plant itself; It reconstructs and expands them, which changes them aesthetically and provides them with a new life. In relation with the story of Nix's daughters, goddesses of the filaments of destiny: Cloto, Laquesis and Atropos, responsible for the destiny of the people and their luck, they cut each one’s thread when the end belongs. Eucalyptus has evergreen leaves and great regenerative capacity, but a limited shelf life. It has been valued with a miracle for swift growth, which is considered an invasive invasion of its original area.
11. Jordà Porcel Pou My purpose is to represent the concept of failure, which in the western context is a word with negative connotations, but from other points of view it can be positive. Failure, trial, error: I build an image from other rejected images, forgotten or unlisted. The intention is to play with all this thickness of "failling" images by trimming and overlapping them, in order to compose a new and original one.
12. Montse Carreño The most frequent action we carry out in front of a unknown or ignored word is to google it: this way we accumulate a digital sea of scattered information, without hierarchy. Today our experience of accessing this way of immediate knowing is atomized, like an infinite flow of languages. The starting point is not a blank page where you can write an ex nihilo text, but the collection, and a combination of sources in the thread of thought. This process has a visual component -like memory-, and involves the dynamic management between what is known and the assimilation of the unknown. The arbitrary reading of textual contents, audios or images related to the notion of resilience, derives in a reordered and dialectical transcription, where the most significant reverberates through repetition.
13. Introducció Fragile Force is an oxymoron, a play on words with double meaning. An allusion to the fragility that can be found in human strength, arised when thinking about the abilities related to the neologism resilience. A concept that is increasingly present in several areas, linked to our aptitudes when facing hostile situations, highlighting skills such as overcoming and becoming stronger. We part from heterogeneous perspectives and visual styles, which reflect the different realities and personalities at the time of subsisting unscathed, insecure, or even reinforced.