sant josep

St Josep is a project developed during Holy Week that focuses on a historically secondary figure in the Christian narrative: Saint Joseph. Patron of wood and closely linked to manual labor, Joseph has traditionally been present as support, but absent as protagonist. A saint who is almost never brought out into the streets during Holy Week because he does not have a story important enough to be carried out.

In the context of Can Vidalet, a neighborhood where religious presence and processions are very visible, we proposed collectively building a wooden Saint Joseph and taking him through the neighborhood. The action generated a lot of expectation, as for many people in the neighborhood it was the first time they had seen Saint Joseph in procession.

The project was complemented by conversations about religion and the figure of Saint Joseph as an absolutely secondary and utilitarian character, with the participation of Marc Boix, a religion teacher, and with musical accompaniment by Joana Domènech on flabiol and tamborí.