BARCELONA – MACBA PRESENTS “NOTES FOR AN EYE FIRE”
Within the Panorama institutional program, this exhibition focuses on aesthetics and artistic practices in and around Barcelona. It comprises a wide range of disciplines, including painting, sculpture, works on paper, video installation, performance, photography and textiles, and is driven by a desire to defend and verify the making of on-site exhibitions as experiences that envelop us as whole sensing bodies in space. As the “notes” of the title suggests, this group exhibition attempts to jot down, to lay out and to connect without seeking to be in any way definitive.
The title, borrowed from a 2020 book of poetry by Gabriel Ventura, conjures up a powerful metaphor that provokes a questioning of the dominance of vision, urging us to explore an expanded definition of seeing that engages our other senses and entails new ways of navigating the world, of remembering and of producing knowledge.
The works in the exhibition weave together concerns and leitmotifs that have emerged from the curators’ studio visits and conversations with the art community, including the city’s self-image, notions of reparation and belonging, gender dissidence and our relationship with nonhuman life.
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Imágenes cortesía del MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Foto: Miquel Coll
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Imágenes cortesía del MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Foto: Miquel Coll
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Imágenes cortesía del MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Foto: Miquel Coll
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Imágenes cortesía del MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Foto: Miquel Coll
The circular eye takes on a life of its own in the exhibition’s imagination, in the form of projects that explore theatre or performance, the spatial relationship between stage and auditorium and the loop as narrative. Such perspectives and scales also encircle how the museum establishes a connection with its neighbourhood, and vice versa, at a time when perhaps we are all questioning and seeing afresh what our own place in the world might be.
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Imágenes cortesía del MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Foto: Miquel Coll
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Imágenes cortesía del MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Foto: Miquel Coll
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Imágenes cortesía del MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Foto: Miquel Coll
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Imágenes cortesía del MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Foto: Miquel Coll
Participating artists: Ana Domínguez, El Palomar (Mariokissme and R. Marcos Mota), Laia Estruch, Arash Fayez, Antoni Hervàs, Rasmus Nilausen, nyamnyam (Ariadna Rodríguez and Iñaki Álvarez) with Pedro Pineda, Claudia Pagès, Aleix Plademunt, Marria Pratts, Stella Rahola Matutes, Eulàlia Rovira, Ruta de autor (Aymara Arreaza R. and Lorena Bou Linhares), Adrian Schindler, Rosa Tharrats, Gabriel Ventura, and Marc Vives.
Curators: Hiuwai Chu and Latitudes (Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna).
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