{"id":7643,"date":"2025-06-11T10:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T10:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canal.mesmnac.cat\/?post_type=museu&p=7643"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:54:59","slug":"strappo-by-mar-arza","status":"publish","type":"museu","link":"https:\/\/canal.mesmnac.cat\/en\/museum\/strappo-by-mar-arza\/","title":{"rendered":"Strappo: The Patriarchy Does Not Fall by Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n \n \"MNAC\"\n\n \"MNAC\"\n\n\n
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Strappo: The Patriarchy Does Not Fall by Chance<\/h1>\n

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Mar Arza reflects on the patriarchal structures embedded in our society. The work leaves its mark: even what is torn away reveals what persists. How many more layers must we remove to neutralise its impact and its presence?<\/p>\n\n <\/h2>\n <\/article>\n

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An intervention by Mar Arza at the MNAC<\/h3>\n

The strappo<\/em><\/a> technique was used to detach mural paintings from churches in the Pyrenees<\/a> in order to transfer them to the exhibition spaces of the MNAC, where these unique, iconic works are displayed today.<\/p>\n

Although the aim was to preserve them, the gesture remains extractive: the skin of a liturgical building was removed and taken to a neutral, museum setting. In the process, deep layers, traces and shadows of what was once there remain.<\/p>\n

Mar Arza<\/a> draws on this historic technique to intervene at the heart of the mural\u2011painting galleries. She presents a detached fresco that reveals a phrase: ARCUS PATRIS FORTE NON CADUNT (\u201cThe father\u2019s arches do not fall by chance\u201d).<\/p>\n

From this wound emerges a latent message about power. The work shows how art can conceal or perpetuate certain structures, but it can also make them visible. Like a ruin, it speaks to us of what falls and of what endures.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/article>\n \n

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