Screening El Museo Invisible by Tània and Ona Balló

• Day: May 17
• Time: 7 p.m.
• Space: Auditori
• Free activity with prior registration
• Duration of the film: 50 minutes

As part of the activities planned to celebrate International Museum Day and in relation to the exhibition “In conversation: The Museum and The Collection” which can be visited until May 26, we are screening the documentary El Museo Invisible. Qué esconden nuestros museos (2024) co-directed by Tània and Ona Balló.

The film explores how, until a few years ago, a large part of our artistic heritage was made invisible by the prevailing historical discourse. A story that left out of the equation women artists and the history of the vanquished.

Presented by: Tània and Ona Balló

Synopsis: Directors enter through the underground door of the museums to get to know the other museum, which lives in a parallel time. A gesture that Pere Portabella also made, in 1969, in his film Premis Nacionals, and that today serves as inspiration and reflection. Currently, the collective imagination tends to think that the works that are not exhibited are because they are minor, but the reality is that there are different conditions that keep them in the reserves. Through the voice of the specialists, and the observation of the work and reserve spaces of the museums, they reveal how they are largely the construction of the hegemonic discourses, strengthened by the institutions, which have made part of these works invisible, biasing our cultural and social past. Aware of this reality and faced with new social demands, the institutions work with the aim of countering these practices. The film documents this process, aware of its transformative importance.

Ona Balló Pedragosa is an art historian, film programmer and curator. Her research is interested in the narrative intersections between music and image, with a thesis in progress on the representation of sound space in the Romanesque painting of the Pyrenees. She has worked on exhibitions at the Center Pompidou, La Cinémathèque française, Le Fresnoy and the Bòlit in Girona. Occasionally she is in charge of the sound recording on shoots.

Tània Balló Colell is a filmmaker, writer, communicator and cultural researcher. Her filmography includes the documentary trilogy Las Sinsombrero (Balló, Jiménez-Núñez, Torres, TVE, 2015-2021), El Caso Wanninkhof – Carabantes (Netflix, 2021) and El Museu Invisible Museum (Balló, TVE, 2023). As a cultural disseminator and researcher, she is the creator and director of the projects; Las Sinsombrero (2014- act.) and Les Anònimes. Obres sense relat en les col·leccions d’art modern dels museus espanyols, project benefited from a Leonardo Grant for Cultural Researchers and Creators (BBVA Foundation, 2023).

She has published; Las Sinsombrero (Espasa, 2016), Querido Diario: hoy ha empezado la guerra (Espasa, 2017), Ocultas e impecables. Las Sinsombrero 2 (Espasa, 2018), ), Les Combatents. La història oblidada de les milicianes antifeixistes (Rosa dels Vents, 2021), Alicia y las Sinsombrero (Mueve tu Lengua. 2021) and No quiero olvidar todo lo que sé. Las Sinsombrero 3 (Espasa, 2022).

She has curated exhibitions; “Las Sinsombrero” (Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, October 18, 2022 – January 15, 2023), and “No Pasarán. 16 días Madrid 1936» (Office of Human Rights and Memory of the City Council of Madrid, April-June 2018, Casa de la Panadería, Madrid).