The Other Mouth. An exhibition by the participants of BAR TOOL #7
The Other Mouth. An exhibition by the participants of BAR TOOL #7 featuring Alina Ozerova, Lucía Taibo Guzmán, and Valentine Haibette.
Saturday, May 9, 11 am–6 pm – Open rehearsal
Wednesday, May 14, 7 pm – Opening and first activation
Wednesday, May 21, 7 pm – Closing and second activation
HAUS – Space for Contemporary Arts and Practices
(Carrer Ciutat de Granada 34–36, Metro Llacuna)
What does it take to build a space of attention?
How can we take responsibility for the memories of others—embody them, and make space for them in our imagination?
This has happened before, and it will happen again. Over and over again we find ourselves softly retelling the stories our grandmothers once told us. We hold on to them as if they were noble truths, forgetting that other tale, once whispered by our grandmother’s grandmother. We are made of stories, in a state of perpetual digestion: we absorb what is other, transform it, and share it. Exchange becomes an intimate and selfless act.
We usually come to exhibitions expecting to receive something. Here, the first step is to give. Without that openness—without consent—there can be no real encounter.
The first activation centers around a plastic membrane: a collective ear installed on-site, whose perforations invite secrets, a letting-go of memory so it can circulate in a space of transaction—like in a street market.
We all know that memory has never truly belonged to us, even if we act as though it does. Putting it into motion—into a space of barter—strips away a layer of identity—armor, boundary, contact—and readies us for exchange.
The second performance invites us to listen to those already-shared stories, to discover them as if for the first time. The memory of the other filters through our body, and we sculpt it anew, reinterpreting what is absent.
The Other Mouth is a small analog assemblage to help us take responsibility for collective memory: to open a hole in the body in order to inhabit it.
The Other Mouth is the final joint project by the participants in the BAR TOOL #7 artistic research training program, developed between November 2024 and May 2025. This edition of the program proposed an experimental space focused on writing as a relational artistic practice. Guided by mentors Marta Echaves, Joseph del Pesco, Guillermo Faivovich, and Claudia Pagès Rabal, along with program directors Andrea Rodríguez Novoa and Veronica Valentini, the participants explored listening, intimacy, and language as tools to activate sensitive and critical forms of knowledge. The result of months of shared exploration, The Other Mouth unfolds as a collective gesture to imagine how to inhabit memory—both our own and that of others—through the body, attentive listening, and symbolic exchange.
With the collaboration of:
