For this year’s Night of Museums, La Escocesa presents at Montjuïc Castle the project Pròxima inauguració (Upcoming Opening). The subject matter is the ironic presentation of the fake upcoming opening of a shopping mall in the castle as a response from an iconic landmark devoid of content coming to terms with the imposition of a new meaning conforming to the new forms of violence being practised in all cities since the triumph of neoliberalism and neocolonialisation. In this light, resident artist Daniel de la Barra will install on the façades adjacent to the main castle entrance two large posters adverstising the upcoming opening.

In parallel, a small publication will be handed out, a reinterpretaton of the Boletín mensual de la Sociedad de Atracción de Forasteros (Monthly Bulletin of the Society for Attracting Foreigners), a historic journal inspired by members of the Catalan bourgeoise that contributed to transforming the reality of urban life into a key factor for tourism in order to deprive it of its social power and redefine it as a merely iconic and identitarian symbol. The publication will promote the strategic position of the Castle as a commercial centre and present ironically the various artworks on show there and which function as elements drawing the visitor’s attention.

Munició (Ammunition), by Marina Rubio, is an installation made up of cylindrical pieces of black mud symbolising a fragmented trajectory of the projectiles launched by the Castle cannons. The artwork establishes an analogy between the artillery cannon and the machine extruding the mud, thus linking the projectile trajectory with the bombardment meted out on the local population from the Castle at various periods in which it was militarily active.

Zosen Bandido has created figures of naguals, Mesoamerican creatures characterised by their ability to change form: during the day they have the appearance of a human whilst at night they turn into animals or fantastical figures. Through these figures, Zosen aims to account for the multiple meanings of Montjuïc Castle.

Juan David Galindo, through a false renovation of the Castle walls, highlights the double contemporary meaning of the world ‘wall’, two systems that function as two sides of the same coin. Today, the Facebook wall is triumphing over the  common meaning of ‘wall’ as separation and enclosure. Galindo explores the concept of perpetual war and its relationship with social networks and the internet in general.