Public programme (t)#2: Sergi Casero

"All images will disappear" unfolds as a collective act of remembering. Borrowing the mechanics of the memory card game, we retrieve what resists erasure by calling it back into presence. Anchored in the fearless legacy of Nadezhda Mandelstam, the piece moves between the intimate and the communal, insisting on memory and orality as forms of resistance.

Sergi Casero is a performance artist from Barcelona. His work drifts between narrative, performance, and research, and serves as a way to probe the fractures and tensions of the present. Every time the artist, Sergi Casero, reads this last sentence, he feels an urge to rip his eyelashes out with his teeth. The artist despises the convention of writing about himself, of endlessly narrating his own existence in the third person through bland commonplaces.

What really interests him is talking about unease, about silent violence, about how fascism has slipped straight into the guts of our system without us batting an eye. The artist admits he is angry and afraid. He does not believe art will save us or provide solutions to anything, but at the very least, it’s a space to spit on everything and, while at it, slap the audience around a bit.

He has presented his work at theatres and festivals such as Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Frascati in Amsterdam, Festival delle Colline Torinesi in Turin, and Auawirleben in Bern. In the past, he has shamelessly taken advantage of several residencies and grants, including Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats, Nau Ivanow, the Artists-in-Residence Center at Matadero Madrid (2023), and Live Works – Free School of Performance at Centrale Fies. When he’s not wandering around these centres or living off grants, he works part-time serving drinks and charming customers.