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Bernardí Roig develops a body of work that rises up against amnesia, defending memory as a
part of a contemplative space. Walter Benjamin analysed the illusory quality of the trauerspiel
(baroque drama) which presents catastrophe to the eyes of the melancholic as if a mirror
were trying to reflect an image in darkness. The presence of the baroque, so telling for this
artist, is a hallucination: an allegory. We could well view Bernardí Roig’s work as a series of
fragmentary stories in which the point of departure is memory seen “in the light of desire”.
For Bernardí Roig, white is the space of …