Difàcil (Diffeasy)
Difàcil (Diffeasy)
A children’s exhibition at the Escola Aldana school with Jaume Clotet
espais C
Difàcil (Diffeasy) is a concept that describes the method of the relationship between Jaume Clotet and the children at the Escola Aldana as part of the espais c programme during the 2022–23 and 2023–24 academic years. It is an enthusiastic and empathetic word capable of transforming difficulty into easiness and is imbued with a particular energy, the energy generated in a situation from which one does not know quite what to expect.
espais c is a programme run by the Consorci d’Educació and the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona that brings artistic practice and the public ambit of primary education into a dialogue by means of lasting processes of co-operation. In this respect, Difàcil is pure collaboration between diverse positions: that of Jaume Clotet, who moved his studio into a school and hence embraced a daily routine shared with the rhythms of an educational community; and that of the Escola Aldana, which decided to cohabit with an artist without it being clear what the outcome would be. And here we must also add the support of Judit López, a mediator at La Capella, and a group of children who would gradually and unhurriedly discover on the fly what the potential of having an artist in the school is. And so, having Jaume close to hand led them to use a new word that seemed unlikely it could ever exist, and perhaps these things only happen thanks to art.
Two years after New Ywork, Clotet’s solo show in the Espai Rampa – and a project with which he began his relationship with the Escola Aldana and espais c – the artist has returned to the same space, but now with a collaborative project that sums up the things that occurred in the company of the children at the school over the course of this period. An exhibition of paintings and a central installation in which the imaginary of the photographic camera acquires a special importance. A fantasy involving many individuals and its documentation as an experience.
Difàcil is an exhibition that is part of La Capella’s mediation programme and one of the events being held to celebrate the centre’s thirtieth anniversary.