Les faules
de Lepòrida
2023-2025
Video (10’49’’) & mixed-media installation
Sculptures & Installation: Steel, iron, sand, agar agar, glycerine, flowers, water, vinegar, fabric
Direction, sound, and editing: Ali Arévalo
Filming and color: Elisa Soto
AI video design: Alejandra G. López (Testigo del Pero)
Exhibited in:
2025 Les Faules de Lepòrida. Solo Show. Can Felipa Arts Visuals. Barcelona. SP.
2023 ExAbrupto Festival. Curated by Laia Casanova y Mercè Alsina. Moià. SP.
Les Faules de Lepòrida presents a speculative narrative set in a dystopian future where Moià becomes the habitat of a fantastical fauna. Using images extracted from the historical archive of the village, artist Ali Arévalo constructs a visual fiction in which history transforms and mutates into a new reality that takes on a life of its own. Doors of various sizes and materials, along with altered curtains, open to new dimensions, while light and sand subtly inter- vene in the space, creating an atmosphere of constant transformation as the hours pass.
The Pollo Matapuces, a character from Moianès folklore, is transformed into a hybrid of rabbit and human, a figure that, like the ancient Phoenician goddess Astarte, blurs the boundaries between the human and the animal, prompting a reflection on interspe- cies imaginaries. To become a rabbit will grant them the power to move through time in order to transform the dystopia into a utopia.
Arévalo, in collaboration with Alejandra G. López and Elisa Soto, uses artificial intelligence to alter the images from the historical archive, turning them into a fantastical dystopia. In this process, magic, fantasy, and mysticism emerge as tools to chart new eco- feminist paradigms and address ecological collapse. “Les Faules de Lepòrida” invites us to reimagine our world, to break the con- ventions of time, and to discover new forms of coexistence in an uncertain future, free from all temporal linearity.
Photographer: Marc Llibre
