IMAGES THAT SPEAK OF YOU: CREATING YOUR OWN TAROT CARD WITH AITOR SARAIBA
Aitor Saraiba’s Tarot of Light
In this workshop we’ll approach the Tarot as a creative, symbolic and deeply personal tool. We’ll begin by exploring archetypes, memory and autobiography, and then we’ll use drawing to make a unique card that represents you: your card.
Each participant will create their own Tarot card, developing its symbols, meanings and narratives. It’s not a question of learning a closed system, but of opening up a space where the intuitive and the personal guide the process.
During the workshop we’ll look at examples of influential Tarots like Dorothy Iannone’s (Ta)Rot Pack, using Aitor Saraiba's Tarot of Light as our compass to understand the Tarot as a living language that can be reinterpreted through individual experience.
Drawing skills are not required. The approach is free, accessible and focused on the process rather than the result.
This workshop is also a first step for anyone who wants to embark on the journey of creating their own complete Tarot deck, beginning with a card that will operate as the starting point and seed of a personal symbolic universe.
Aitor Saraiba is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice revolves around drawing as the primary tool of exploration. Using this medium, he expands his language to encompass different formats, from ceramics to textile art, building a personal universe defined by a constant dialogue between the manual and the symbolic
His work is inspired by a quest to connect with the invisible, to shape what doesn’t always have a name. In this process, drawing becomes an intimate, spiritual channel. As a result of his research, in 2021 he created the Tarot de Luz, a work that has sold more than 30,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into several languages, making it one of his most influential pieces.
Saraiba’s work is deliberately situated at the margins of the artistic establishment. His interest lies in the artisanal, ancestral and intuitive, with parallels in outsider art, pop art and mystical tools. From that place, he has forged an honest, personal language that champions emotion, imperfection and spiritual connection as forms of knowledge.
CAPACITY: 20 PEOPLE.
This exhibition—the first monograph dedicated to Dorothy Iannone at a Spanish institution, curated by Tania Pardo—takes its title from the spirit of perseverance and continuity with which the artist approached life and art, and also from her passionate and generous approach to creation. The expression “over and over again” embodies Iannone’s lifelong conception of her work as the draft of a total work. The exhibition itinerary is organised around six thematic sections that invite viewers to explore her creative universe.