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Catalonia wins an art award at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space for the installation Crop

Performing.  15/06/2023

Crop, by Albert Pascual, Carlota Ricart and Raquel Cors, has won the CT Art Award for the Most Socially Sensitive Exhibition at the international event, where Catalonia has entered three projects with the support of the Institut del Teatre and the Institut Ramon Llull.


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The installation Crop is a creation of scenographers and costume designers Albert Pascual and Carlota Ricart and stage manager and dramatist Raquel Cors, all three graduates of the Institut del Teatre’s High School of Dramatic Art (ESAD). The work is part of the ‘Countries and Regions’ category, and the jury of the Prague Quadrennial has granted it the CT Art Award for the Most Socially Sensitive Exhibition, highlighting its use of natural materials and living organisms. Marta Rafa, a lecturer at the ESAD and curator of the PQ23-Catalonia, together with Pau Masaló and Carlota Ricart collected the prize at the ceremony that took place in Prague to recognise the best projects of this year’s event. Other winning installations in different categories in ‘Countries and Regions’ were those of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Brazil, Thailand, Armenia and Serbia.

Crop is situated in a future beyond the year 2053 based on abandoned pieces of clothing and costumes that remain from the lives and stories that have passed through the spaces of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (TNC) between 1996, the year of its foundation, and 2053, the year when, for a reason open to speculation, the life of the theatre underwent an interruption or stark transformation of its existence. The interactive installation contains piles of clothing, textiles, fabrics and other pieces of costumes and clothes in varying states of decomposition.

The Prague Quadrennial (PQ23), which is taking place from the 8th to the 18th of June this year, is the world’s most important scenography exposition. Catalonia’s participation in the PQ is co-organised by the Institut del Teatre and the Institut Ramon Llull.

This is not the first year that Catalonia has won: in 2019, Catalonia also took the prize for the best installation in the ‘Countries and Regions’ category for Prospective Actions (Catalunya 2004 –2018), a creation of scenographers Laura Clos "Closca" and Xesca Salvà and dramatists Marc Villanueva and Pau Masaló, all of them graduates of the Institut del Teatre’s High School of Dramatic Art (ESAD).

This year is the 50th reiteration of the Prague Quadrennial, the twelfth with the participation of Catalonia, and the third in which Catalonia has competed independently.

More information on the other projects in this year’s competition can be found here.

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