Isa Fontbona Mola & Carron Little
Fontbona and Little created a collaborative public performance on June 19, 2021 where Isa adapted a poem Carron wrote for a public performance in Girona, Spain. Please see below the documentation and a text outlining the inspiration for the performance in Catalan, Spanish and English.
But I draw with alchemy/
shared through history
Excerpt from Poem for Abilasa Leuenberger entitled Written in Gold by Carron Little
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Gilding Gold in the Cracks of the Fragmented Self
By Isa Fontbona Mola
On Juneteenth, Isa Fontbona Mola created a public performance translating Carron’s poem Written in Gold for Abilasa Leuenberger. The live public performance was created on the steps of the Cathedral in Girona, Spain. To read more about what happened and to read the poem in different translations please see below:
Gilding Gold in the Cracks of the Fragmented Self
By Isa Fontbona Mola in collaboration with Carron Little
Poem for Abilasa Leuenberger
This poem was written thinking about kintsugi being a metaphor for an alchemical process in the body. This poem was written as a gift for Abilasa and thinking about how writing can be an act of liberation. It was fortuitous that the priests from the Cathedral in Girona, Spain granted Isa Fontbona permission on Juneteenth (Liberation Day/Emancipation Day) in commemoration of the end of slavery in the U.S.A. on June 19th, 1865. For the text of the poem in Catalan, Spanish and English please click below.
Image: Gallery A&D Director, Amy Sinclair, CV Peterson, Elisa Schoenberger, Carron Little, photo by Jamie Gannon
At the opening of Spare Rib Revisited on February 8, 2017 with Abilasa’s sculpture in the forefront.
