LA CORTINA CREMA
2’33”, HD, color, 16/9, iPhone shot, 2021
Video installation by Sara Bonaventura
Produced during KONVENT residency program 2021
Mixed Media – video, found objects and acrylic painting

In this project I’ve tried to interlace the legacy of now KONVENT,
a former textile colony, with the new geography of the textile industry, ie with globalization.
During our 2021 international residency an apparently ephemeral phenomenon was taking place intensively,
the mating season of very diaphanous moths, soon dying after laying new eggs, scientific name is
cydalimaperspectalis, in castellano known as polilla del boj, an invasive species of Lepidoptera,
a plague around Europe since 2010, more recently introduced in Spain as well, originating from Asia,
exactly from those lands where inhuman textile labour is now taking place.
The vectors of invasive species are mainly humans but in my work, still in progress,
the perspective is turned and the moth becomes the vector of these human memories.

Poem by MARIA MERCÈ MARÇAL I SERRA
Voice over by fellow residents: Laura, Marta, Mireia