Kintos

Every year, many towns in Catalonia, the Valencian Country and beyond celebrate the quintos festival: a ritual marking the transition from youth to adulthood.

Kintos takes this custom as its starting point to explore the forms of power, belonging, violence and representation that run through rural communities.

The installation unfolds a set of moving images, sounds, texts and actions that intervene in the codes of the festival, shifting them from their usual context and opening them up to new readings.

What is repeated year after year appears fragmented, altered and reconfigured, making visible the tensions that inhabit any collective ritual: between cohesion and exclusion, celebration and norm, memory and change.

Far from a nostalgic approach, Kintos proposes an experience that invites us to reconsider tradition as a living space, crossed by conflicts, contradictions and possibilities for transformation.

CONTENT WARNING: The exhibition includes references to both explicit and symbolic violence. Some pieces contain images of nudity and violence towards animals. These images come from archival material and no animals have suffered for the sake of the project.