Quan ja no existeixin els humans
Manel Quintana / Flowers by Bornay
Practical information and accessibility
For photosensitive audience members: this performance uses strobe lighting and smoke effects.
For audience members sensitive to sound: this performance contains loud sounds.
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
A futuristic installation. On a planet from which human life has vanished, plant matter and decaying electronic systems form unexpected symbioses and entirely new organisms.
Nature and technology have produced a new form of life – a creature of roots and corroded cables spreading like an organic skeleton, breathing with irregular electric pulses and forgotten data: fragments of a world no one can decipher. The installation is a posthuman life form, a testament to a future in which the boundary between the natural and the artificial has dissolved entirely. In the pulsing silence, in a breath that is both electric and botanical, the memory of a vanished world endures – alongside the promise of a new biology made of light, circuit and root.
Manel Quintana is a light artist working across installation, movement arts and expanded scenography. His recent projects explore the relationship between space and perception, and the new forms of understanding and human connection that technology makes possible. Together with artist Maria Camila Sanjinés, he forms the collective Artistas Salchichas. He has collaborated with institutions, festivals and museums across Spain and Latin America.
Flowers by Bornay is a contemporary floral art studio founded in Barcelona in 2008, internationally recognised for transforming flowers into sculpture through compositions that draw on cinema, art, science fiction and pop aesthetics. They create floral installations that are bold, singular and charged with emotion.
Concept and Creation: Manel Quintana and Flowers by Bornay / Floral Production: Flowers by Bornay / Lighting Design and Sound Composition: Manel Quintana / Technical Assistance and Production: Xavier Moliner (Androna)
