Lola Lasurt, lecturer on the Bachelor of Design, has won the Associació Catalana de Crítica d'Art (ACCA) prize for Artistic Research for the project Heliofilia presented at Manifiesta 15.
The artist, who focuses his activity on painting and video, comments on his excitement at receiving this recognition from the profession, specifically from the members of the ACCA, and dedicates it ‘to my mother, who during the dictatorship was unable to pursue artistic education despite her strong desire to do so’.
In the research category, the project Heliofilia, by Lola Lasurt, was distinguished as the winner for its conceptual sophistication and the delicacy with which it evokes the memory of an emblematic space such as La Ricarda, through a subtle integration of art, architecture and sensorial experience.
Heliofilia is an artistic research proposal that recovers a social movement of the past linked to the naturalist groups that emerged in Barcelona at the beginning of the 20th century to rediscover part of the memory buried in the beaches of the coastline of the same metropolitan area.
A project based on research into ‘Els Amics del Sol’, a pioneering naturalist movement born on the now defunct Can Tunis beach in Barcelona in the summer of 1915 and formed by a group of members of the sports and hiking sections of the Ateneu Enciclopèdic Popular (Popular Encyclopaedic Athenaeum).
Their first objective was to avoid the urban environment by encouraging outings to the beach to bring the body into direct contact with the natural elements and especially with the sun. They were defined by the self-taught discovery of the landscape, respect for the evocative world of nature and the practice of dance inspired by the exercises of the Duncan brothers.
Cover image. Heliofilia, 2024 © Lola Lasurt. Photo © Manifiesta 15 / Ivan Erofeev
Heliofília
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