Descripción de la Exposición
What moves us?
What dream, what madness propels us aboard improbable craft towards the other side of the mountain, the other side of the sea, and makes us look up to the stars?
Whether out of despair or hope of a better tomorrow, thirst for conquest or scientific curiosity, the forces underlying the quest for human utopias are innumerable.
Unknown worlds, dreamt of, never having come about…
In a setting that brings together photography, video, installation, and performance, Mérignac Photo presents some twenty international artists, notably in collaboration with MOMENTA I Biennale de l’image (Montreal, Canada).
In their own way, each of these artists exploring the theme of Possible Worlds questions the process of constructing the collective worldviews and myths of our contemporary societies.
At the Old Church, central point of the event, dream machines and dreams of conquest, shaping the idea of elsewhere and otherness, rub shoulders with fables and a taste for the absurd.
By way of echo, the Michel Sainte Marie Media Library hosts a section developing the idea of preserving memory and knowledge, initiated by the advent of new digital systems of representation.
Implicit in these are the projected collapse of our societies and futures without humanity.
Finally, Mérignac Photo engages in play between public space and exhibition spaces. Presented at the Parc du Vivier are the works of three artists that address different possible worlds and reveal the probable destiny of a world already on the brink of coming about.
Emeline Dufrennoy, guest curator.
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
