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Art der Einrichtung:
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Gründungsjahr:

2006

Beschreibung:

This project captures and reveals the work dynamics that Nathalie Rey and Enric Maurí have been developing together for a few years. This new joint project has the particularity of braiding their speeches on the basis of two individually designed macro installations. These installations are located

The project “Sex and things and things that are not sex” captures and reveals the work dynamics that Nathalie Rey and Enric Maurí have been developing together for a few years. Although at the same time each one pursues its own line of work, together they have found ways to carry out projects dealing with common interests, such as environmental problems, the pandemic situation or the issue of censorship.

This new joint project has the particularity of braiding their speeches on the basis of two individually designed macro installations. These installations are located at each end of the exhibition space and converge in the center, where they meet and contaminate each other in a dynamic of contrast, harmony and complementarity.

Nathalie Rey's installation stems from the desire to delve into themes addressed in the previous joint project entitled "The Conspiratorial Artist" and developed at the GlogauAIR residence, although the perspective of this new work is much more personal and questions the identity of the artist as a woman through autobiographical winks. The installation is entitled "The Garden of Earthly Delights" and refers to both the work of Hieronymus Bosch and the film by Carlos Saura (1970) in which sexuality is clearly repressed by a conservative society and can only be expressed at an unconscious level. The installation in process is a dreamlike scene, somewhat grotesque and monstrous, expression of an unconscious desire, where the notion of vice is evacuated in favor of fantasy and game. Regarding the discursive strategy, Rey bases her argument on the complementary concepts of two French philosophers; on the one hand Georges Bataille with his notion of the "childish character of eroticism", and on the other Jean Baudrillard with his theory of "objects as a system of signs".

Enric Maurí, for his part, tackles one of the issues that have obsessed him for a long time, namely the aesthetics of precariousness, which he shapes from waste found on the street, in this case from Berlin, such as tents, furniture, plastics, shoes, etc. This device allows him to delve into the reality of an increasingly precarious and vulnerable society, where the precariousness that manifests itself in the street is only a reflection of what is happening in general and is being avoided, namely poverty, the crisis of housing, loneliness, lack of communication; neo-capitalism has turned the Homus politicus into Homus economicus, that is, one more gear in the chain of production and consumption and an object of speculation. In this project, Enric Maurí refers both to "Undoing the Dreams: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution" by the North American political specialist and philosopher Wendy Brown and to the German/Korean philosopher Byung Chul Han, particularly his book "No things".

Kunstart:
Contemporary, Installation

Kunststil:
Contemporary Art - Zeitgenössische Kunst

Öffnungszeiten
Montag von Closed bis Closed Uhr
Dienstag von 6PM bis 9PM Uhr
Mittwoch von 4PM bis 8PM Uhr
Donnerstag von 4PM bis 8PM Uhr
Freitag von 4PM bis 8PM Uhr
Samstag von 4PM bis 8PM Uhr
Sonntag von Closed bis Closed Uhr