Portlligat, on l’olivera, el mar i el vent dansen amb la Via Làctea

Cycle of actions at the Salvador Dalí House in Portlligat, curated by Marta Pol Rigau

Portlligat, both point of origin and of return, forms the nucleus of a universe that Salvador Dalí turned into personal mythology. In this setting, at once tiny and immense, the sea, the olive grove and the wind compose an essential geometry that structures his artistic work and thought. The Madonna of Portlligat (1949 and 1950) is one of its most emblematic expressions: Gala’s face and open body become an architecture of light and emptiness, where objects levitate and the world reorganises itself according to a new harmony — that of the enigma uniting heaven and earth.

This landscape that Dalí transfigured into a space of revelation now finds a new reading through three contemporary actions that reactivate its symbolic and material dimension. In Ingràvida, by Azucena Momo, the wind —an invisible force unifying movement— becomes an agent of human and cosmic connection, reawakening the universal dance that pervades Dalí’s work. In Collita, by Isabel Banal, the olive tree becomes an emblem of permanence and memory of place, a space where vegetal matter preserves the trace of time and human labour from a contemporary perspective. Finally, in Amanar, by Mireia Coromina, the sea unfolds as a canvas evoking the finitude of painting, generating a line of tension that runs through many of Dalí’s works, where water becomes a space of mental projection and formal configuration.

These three contemporary perspectives dialogue with the Dalinian imaginary to explore the relationship between nature, body and spirit, situating the Portlligat landscape as a living space of revelation and creation.

Marta Pol Rigau