Mercat de les Flors continues to support the Sâlmon Festival and will host a significant portion of the programme for its 14th edition, which will take place from 14 October to 3 November 2026. Curated by Quim Pujol, this year’s programme highlights the transformative potential of the performing arts.
Like a mirror crashing through a window, in this Sâlmon 2026 the point of view shatters. The theater becomes a cave, and, plunged into darkness, we no longer know where our skin ends and the world begins. Closed and asleep, the eyes dance to invoke all that is not, and the fragile mirage of reality trembles under the vast influence of what could be. Imagination transports us to a place where dreams are shared.
Words, images, and sensations blur the bodies until their form, origin, and gender become unrecognizable. Otherness is the set of needles that holds the illusion of identity together. One need only pull on the thread for a cascade of sequins and colored crystals to spill forth.
The present intertwines with yesterday and tomorrow, and it is impossible to say whether the traces that surround us are our own, those of distant ancestors, or those of great-grandchildren yet to be born. Sculpture, film, choreography, drawing, performance, poetry, and music intersect with one another again and again until it becomes impossible to name what stands before us. Yet dance remains here, both on and off the stage: a dance that is as much a celebration as it is a courtship, and where all forms of desire are welcome.
The week of October 29 to November 1 will be particularly concentrated, as Mercat de les Flors will host eleven contemporary choreographic works. We will feature two legendary works that have toured all over Europe but have never been seen in Barcelona: “Light Years Away” by Edurne Rubio and “Labourer” by Madeleine Fournier, three Catalan premieres featuring Cuqui Jerez, Clara Furey, and Francesc Ruiz, a Sâlmon co-production with Toni Hervàs, and works by Misiker, FDIHA Association, and Alix Eynaudi.
With the support ICUB – Ajuntament de Barcelona and OSIC Generalitat de Catalunya
