Bernardi Roig
Bernardí Roig. HEM ARRIBAT A L’INFERN!
Bernardí Roig presents the installation ¡Hemos llegado al infierno! (We've arrived in hell!) at the Museum of Mallorca, the final stage of a project by the artist featuring the Toros de Costitx bulls as a reference image.
The project, organized by Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma, is part of the Biennale B and is curated by Sofía Borrás and Jackie Herbst.
Mid-September 2025. In the Museu de Mallorca, there is a large-scale still life installation: a reliquary of debris wilfully disposed on a nine-metre-long altar, where—punctuated by an electronic optical illusion—the presumed remains of the opulent shipwreck of memory lie.
It is a mountain of discarded fragments that attempts to give form to an absence. Here it is the original bronze Bous de Costitx themselves that are absent, currently hanging in the Museo Arqueológico in Madrid, trapped in the eternal demand for their return to the Museu de Mallorca.
The museum’s collection includes four patinated plaster casts that imitate the bronze skin of these heads, with two copies dating from the 1930s and two from the 1980s. In this installation, they are accompanied by a mountain of rubble, fragments and remnants of unstitched memory. There are ears, horns, tear ducts, snouts, eyes and plaster folds, and there is also dust, lots of it. All the residual debris from a process that is still attempting to capture an appearance, visible only in the instant of the strobe flash. It is the optical illusion of a presence that has not yet arrived. They are still in Madrid.
