Micropoetry + Curatorial Monologues

Street art intervention on the Zoo wall, which otherwise was a long grey cement agglomeration parallel with the road and the Estació de França train station had some serious decadence moments and is now renowned. The painting is oriented toward the road and railway. The imposing buffalo and the chimpanzee observe the transportation system. The presence of the buffalo is familiar to me, as buffalo...

What are the implications of fashion trends for the environment and human rights? While billions of pairs of shoes are manufactured, and then thrown away the same year, creating an environmental problem, millions of children survive without shoes. People in vulnerable situations around the world struggle with the footwear issue. Even though it's a basic necessity, footwear depends on income. R...

Aujourd'hui, je vous fait une petite demande, d´une importance colossale: Quelles sont les implications des tendances de la mode pour l'environnement et les droits humaines ? Alors que des milliards de paires de chaussures sont fabriquées puis jetées la même année, créant un problème environnemental, des millions d'enfants survivent sans chaussures.

Entering personal space uninvited, reframing shared space, and mistakenly establishing rules for civilized interaction. Extremism is a group effect based on herd stimulation, fueled by old, unresolved issues, and formed by easy-to-manipulate people. What makes people easy to manipulate? For the past five years, media disinformation and aggressive campaigns have predominated online and on televisio...

En Europe, nous avons construit notre identité en nous influençant les uns les autres, d'un petit village à l'autre. Au fil du temps, la langue a évolué, chaque pays essayant de se développer séparément, selon un système codifié en interne, et cultivant les malentendus avec ses cousins, frères et sœurs… bref, la famille lexicale. On les appelle souvent langues étrangères, mais en réalité,...

Expressions related to the Red Riding Hood tale appear everywhere, and even if they have the same meaning, the conceptual perception might vary. Saliendo de la boca del lobo —According to the Spanish understanding of the concept, we use this saying when someone exposes themselves to danger, often unwittingly. We also use it to say that a person has fallen into a trap or will face a problem without...

La mirada de una elfa, pintada cerca de uno de los últimos árboles en pie del supuesto jardín. Arquitectura que cambia rápidamente y donde hace poco había sombra y zonas verdes, ahora hay cemento con algunos árboles de decoración. Se pierde por diseño, y más aún, por la sequía. 60% de los árboles que admirábamos hace poco, no están mas en la ciudad, debido a la sequía. Muchos de ellos eran gigante...

Tocmai cumpărasem un ghiveci cu o margaretă, ca auto-cadou de ziua mea, când s-au stins luminile, în magazin. Dintr-o dată, strada centrala s-a aglomerat cu grimase in semn de intrebare. Oamenii ieșeau din întunericul comercial, ieșeau din lungile coridoare fara iluminare. Aveam casti puse si un playlist in derulare, care s-a oprit și-n schimb, am putut auzi traficul aglomerat, care m-a deranjat c...

From the underground to the surface, we want Peace! While the media supports and propels dubious group interests and invades the online world with predator personalities and war criminals, the underground culture reacts. While the media sleeps during a genocide or takes over the war stories, reformulates them, and distributes photos and films of the victims, exposing them, once again unable to pro...

Es el debut de la primavera, la naturaleza parece más salvaje y vasta, y dondequiera que mires, un punto amarillo y esponjoso se infiltra en el paisaje. Al subir las escaleras, puedes verlos emerger, entre otras flores y hierbas, alrededor de los árboles, junto a los bancos, en la calle y en la vía del tren. Entre las rocas, resistentes al frío, al viento, al calor y a la guerra, en cada rincón, e...

Este debutul de primăvară, natura pare mai sălbatică și mai vastă. Oriunde te uiți, un punct galben pufos infiltrează peisajul. Pe măsură ce urci scările, le poți vedea ieșind, printre alte flori și ierburi, în jurul copacilor, lângă bănci, pe stradă și pe linia de cale ferată. Între stânci, rezistente la frig, vânt, căldură, si razboi, la fiecare colț, pe fiecare margine, ieșind din ciment, deasu...

Could an artist become an artist without developing internal language? Could a dandelion become a dandelion without the dandelion seed? Artistical expression is something complex and has to do with language development, verbal for writers, and non-verbal for other artistical activities. Unlike dandelions, there are just a few artists and a bunch of art technicians. The best tool might help with th...

Struggling through life, thinking you have nothing and reading to escape, lured by the sonority of the word, you start decoding metaphors in international poetry and feel like you have everything you could ever think of. There is splendor in the universe when you read and write about human rights and ecology.

As a nature and animal lover, I sometimes wonder how I managed to survive growing up in an apartment. Then I realize I'm a writer. Writing helped me. The whole process of learning to express the traumatic feeling of being trapped has kept me alive. Learning to express emotions is essential in a human life, and when we do it, that's poetry. Poetry might be hard, but take it as imperative br...

Solo guitar auditions. Lemon cake is out of the oven. It smells so good it makes me want to dance a little ballet and sing an operetta. The cat invites herself with a few moves. Electric crescendo, trembling dance, excitement rising. Sweet and sour bites so finger-licking good. The strings whip out unwritten poetry and mesmerized by the song's rhythm, my lips instantly whistle the fiery melody...

On this special day, I would like to congratulate the foolish administrations that harm citizen safety and generate additional public spending. For each person on the street, more money is spent than if they had received reasonable support.

Arquitectura bonita con esquinas meadas, con unos olores que ni del mercado de pescado no salen tan pestilencial. Calles largas y crueles. Lavabos no hay, o apenas. Un tío con próstata fina grita: Io no puedo mas, Fulanito, estoy meando encima, voy entre los coches! Calles largas y crueles. Lavabos no hay, o apenas.

Storytelling: Oana MarotiWe hear a lot about inclusion, but what is it? Social inclusion is defined as the process of improving the terms of participation in society, particularly for disadvantaged people, through enhancing opportunities, access to resources, voice, and respect for rights. As a resume, social inclusion has a strong relation with human rights implementation. I can observe from the...

Storytelling: Oana Maroti Barcelona has had a written Strategy for Inclusion since 2017, (better late than ever) with plenty of goals concentrated on women, and many institutions apparently support women. The Strategy is to be applicable until 2027 It´s a town that means business in international education and women's protection, in theory, but is the plan functional? As an immigrant woman, th...

essay fragment -  Dandelions  series by Oana Maroti Negotiation is not as free as the media shows. There are specific rules in intercultural communication. Like in a football game, there are rules and someone is arbitrating the meeting. That someone is a neutral person, a mediator who will coordinate the information exchange. Before even speaking, the interlocutors are made aware of the communicat...

Essay Fragment by Oana Maroti Negotiation is communication, with intersecting identities. Negotiations often fail due to a lack of intercultural engagement and an imposed format. First of all, the imposed format is an imposed language. Multilingual understanding is essential in international communication, but the best way to convey a message is to make sure that the sender feels comfortable and c...

Memory is beautiful, extremely powerful, with an interesting reverse dynamic. When someone creates a bad memory, they open a door to themselves, they become vulnerable. SP: Dinámica de la memoria colectiva La memoria es hermosa, extremadamente poderosa, con una dinámica inversa interesante. Cuando alguien crea un mal recuerdo, abre una puerta hacia sí mismo, se vuelve vulnerable. FR: Dynamique de...

Gigantii inca dorm. E februarie si dealurile miros puternic a pin. Migdalii, de prin Ianuarie dau floare. In fiecare an merg sa-i caut, ii admir in aceasta spectaculara transformare. Pe langa migdali, albinele lucreaza de zor. Le bazaie motorasul, cu un dulce efect sonor. Pasarile construiesc cuiburi, ciripesc intre ele, super muzicale, super acrobatice, de la un copac la altul planeaza. Migdalul...

Camino por la calle con los auriculares puestos, me muevo de una ciudad a otra, de un país a otro. Vivo donde me lo permiten, trabajo donde me acogen, soy parte de todo, de cada lugar con el que he tenido contacto, pero no pertenezco a ningún sitio, porque ahora soy demasiado mestiza. Camino por la calle con los auriculares puestos. Como si llevara un casco. Con estos auriculares puedo anular ruid...

Fragment from the  She-Migrator  series by Oana Maroti Ironically, working with European fast trains for years doesn´t guarantee a train trip paid for by the company—or it didn´t in my case—similar to being a cook in a Mediterranean restaurant and preparing seafood. It doesn´t necessarily mean you have ever tried Mariscos. The working in tourism experience is something I can now talk about, as for...