«Celebrating the centenary of the publication of Mrs. Dalloway at The Yellow House by organizing a program of exhibitions and activities means vindicating the legacy of Virginia Woolf, whose thought remains especially revealing on issues such as anti-militarism and the defense of feminism, so relevant today. Virginia Woolf lived immersed in a time of stupor that continues today. We live in a time of stupor, as Valeriano Bozal already knew, paralyzed by the horror of events that daily threaten to explode a fragmented world. "The world trembled and shuddered and threatened to burn," Virginia Woolf reflects in the voice of the visionary soldier Septimus.
In the sequence of works that Ricardo Cotanda (La Eliana, Valencia, 1963) presents in this exhibition—organized into two series: “I'm Leaving with the Flowers” and “I'm Leaving with the Seaweed”—the world dissolves into the darkness of a stormy sky covered with black clouds that contain all the tears. "A dark cloud is enough to bring sorrow and misfortune upon an entire universe," wrote Gaston Bachelard.»