PAZZIS SUREDA
Life and the void
My interest in the figure of Pazzis Sureda Montaner (Palma, 1907–1939) began on the day my beloved Marga Ramis brought her to my attention, and after I saw her in some photographs taken a few months before she committed suicide at the age of 32.
text Iván Terrasa
Pazzis Sureda was a woman who wanted to be free first and foremost, someone who shattered the stereotypes of her age, who grew up surrounded by intellectuals of the calibre of Rubén Darío, Sorolla, Borges and Unamuno in the Rey Sancho Palace in Valldemossa, who managed to become a self-taught sculptress, who always put passion and love before any other feeling, whose newborn daughter was torn away from her in order to conceal a terrible family secret, who decided to take her own life, a life that she could no longer bear, one spring afternoon. As I learned more about the story of Pazzis, something inside me was increasingly drawn to her, a fascination that was probably similar to that felt by all the men and women around her throughout her life, with no exceptions, none of whom ever managed or were able to measure up to her.
If Pazzis Sureda had been born in a different age and place, far from the sanctimonious Mallorcan society of a century ago, she would doubtless [...]
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