This proposal presented by the artist Isabela Lleó is inspired in a twelfth-century Sufi poem. It tells about the poet Attar awaking one morning turned into a hoopoe. He meets with birds from all over the world to talk about the crisis hitting his world, full of wars and general sadness. He convinces them to take flight in search of Simurgh (king of birds), a difficult journey that will take them across the seven valleys: Search, Love, Knowledge, Detachment, Unity, Astonishment and Death.
Isabela Lleó has made a sculptural model of El coloquio de los Pájaros (The symposium of the Birds), in which she develops this theme in the form of a maze to be installed in a real space. It is intended that its construction is done through a public subscription.
Besides this sculpture, the artist shows several series of woodcuts recently produced on four different topics: unicellular organisms, sponges and other creatures of the bottom of the sea, Labyrinths and Water.
