What can emerge from a list of everyday things? Can wonder be cultivated? How do we move from inventory to inventing?

In a three-hour workshop, open to anyone curious about words and their hidden meanings, we will explore—using Martin Creed’s work as a map—a creative journey. Beginning with observation and recording, we will construct meaning and symbolism, culminating in the creation of our own text.

‘Work No. 3891: Half the air in a given space’, an interactive piece that invites audience participation, will become a laboratory for writing, play, and poetic reflection.

The creative writing workshop initiative is part of our ongoing collaboration with Xarxa de Biblioteques de Menorca. Although this event is free to attend, please book your place and shuttle boat tickets in advance here.

About Ana Haro
Ana Haro is a writer and journalist from Madrid, who has lived in Menorca since 2010, where she founded her writing school, ‘El Taller de Ana Haro’, where she organizes workshops, meetings, and readings, and where texts are created and shared, evoking the ancient custom of gathering in a circle to tell and listen to stories.

She has published seven anthologies of short stories as part of this community: ‘Peccata minuta’ (2016), ‘Mare nostrum’ (2017), ‘Tempus Fugit’ (2018), ‘Alter ego’ (2020), ‘In extremis (2021), ‘La casa azul’ (2023), and ‘Patios’ (2024).

For Ana, literature and the practice of writing are tools for self-understanding in the mistery of the everyday—ways to find one’s literary voice and imagery, to inhabit an island, both literal and metaphorical, to explore the depths of the body, and to clear away, with words, the tangled branches of our verbal jungle.

About ‘Martin Creed’
Hauser & Wirth Menorca opens for a new season with a special presentation by Martin Creed. The exhibition brings together Creed’s ‘Work No. 3891: Half the air in a given space’ and a selection of wall paintings.

The exhibition ‘Martin Creed’ will be on view through Sunday 7 June.