MARCELLE, BASUALDO, AND PRIETO INCLUDED IN CONCEPTUAL EXHIBITION AT COLLEGIUM
Collegium is hosting at its headquarters in the Castilian town of Arévalo the exhibition Jaque. Poder, tiempo e imagen en estado de juego (Check. Power, Time, and Image in a State of Play), a conceptual show that stems from the relationship between chess and the Torre de los Ajedreces, part of the Romanesque-Mudejar style Church of San Martín, which currently serves as the institution’s main headquarters. The building, dating from the 11th and 12th centuries, features an unusual brick frieze in a checkerboard pattern that evokes the chessboard and the strategic dimension of the game.
The exhibition is based on the concept of check, a chess situation that also represents a state of vulnerability, requiring a reassessment of solutions for a positive outcome. From this point, the analogy extends to how hierarchical structures of power have historically been challenged by changes that threaten their capacity and legitimacy.
Curated by Brazilian Aldones Nino, the exhibition includes works by Cintia Marcelle, Eduardo Basualdo, and Wilfredo Prieto. Marcelle (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1974) explores, through the video Buraco Negro (2008), produced together with filmmaker Tiago Mata Machado (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1973), the concepts of confrontation and chaos in contemporary society.
Meanwhile, Eduardo Basualdo (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1977) presents a game of perceptions through optical illusion in his installation La noche en mitad del día (2013). Wilfredo Prieto (Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, 1978) is represented with his symbolic Doce muertes (2012), a work that occupies a central place in the space and serves as one of the starting points for the exhibition’s conceptual structure.
Other artists featured in this group show include Akram Zaatari, Alicja Kwade, Jim Lambie, Kelley Walker, Larry Johnson, Marianna Simnett, and Rosa Barba, whose installations use the chessboard as a metaphor to poetically or conjecturally engage with critiques of these dynamics of resistance.
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Eduardo Basualdo, La noche en mitad del día. Jaque, en Collegium. Foto: Pablo Gómez Ogando
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Eduardo Basualdo, La noche en mitad del día. Jaque, en Collegium. Foto: Pablo Gómez Ogando
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Wilfredo Prieto, Doce muertes. Jaque, en Collegium. Foto: Pablo Gómez Ogando
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Wilfredo Prieto, Doce muertes. Jaque, en Collegium. Pablo Gómez Ogando
Check. Power, Time, and Image in a State of Play can be seen until February 15, 2026, at Collegium, San Ignacio de Loyola 8, Arévalo, Spain.
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