'Kintos' Exhibition by Fermín Sales
28 October 2026 – 10 January 2027 · 16:00
Centre de les Arts Lliures, Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera, Ciutat Vella
Every year, many towns and villages in Catalonia, the Valencian Country and beyond celebrate the festa dels quintos: a ritual marking the passage from youth to adulthood. Kintos takes this custom as its starting point to explore the forms of power, belonging, violence and representation that run through rural communities. The installation unfolds a series of moving images, sounds, texts and actions that intervene in the codes of the festival, shifting them out of their usual context and opening them up to new readings. What is repeated year after year appears fragmented, altered and reconfigured, making visible the tensions present in any collective ritual: between cohesion and exclusion, celebration and norm, memory and change. Far from a nostalgic approach, Kintos offers an experience that invites us to rethink tradition as a living space, shaped by conflicts, contradictions and possibilities for transformation. CONTENT WARNING: The exhibition includes references to both explicit and symbolic violence. Some pieces contain images of nudity and of violence towards animals. These images come from archive material and no animal was harmed for the project.
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 2 November 2026