Descripción de la Exposición
Enar de Dios Rodríguez (Ourense, 1986) Ecotone, 2022. Audiovisual essay. 27:21 min.
Ecotone is an audiovisual essay about borderlands and the practices of control that are exerted over spaces in order to maintain their separation. Structured as a set of fields arranged according to scale (from vast natural areas to minute bodily spaces), Ecotone is a critique of current forms of capitalism, such as surveillance capitalism and biocapitalism. Using a wide range of visual materials, Ecotone aims to activate potential relationalities while demonstrating how economic, political, historical and environmental aspects intersect with each other.
Andrea González Garrán (Madrid, 1990) Transhelvética, 2024 / Film, Full HD, 8 min. (with the suport & collaboration of Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona)
“Transhelvética” is a video exploration of the remnants of an unsuccessful initiative to link Rotterdam to Marseille through a transnational infrastructure spanning the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, and France. This enduring vision, conceived in 1600, persists into the present day, weaving through pivotal moments in the evolution of the European project.
The video unveils the enduring legacy of colonial extraction politics embedded in the organization of European water infrastructures and was awarded the Miquel Casablancas Art Prize 2023. Additionally, I produced an essay soon to be published in “Ghost Planning and Infrastructural Incantation”, e-flux Architecture. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/new-silk-roads/611873/transhelvetica/
Barbara Sánchez Barroso (Lleida, 1987) Botanical dream, 2022. 16 mm transferred to digital. 5 min 40 sec
Botanical dream sets in motion a desire conceived by a more-than-human subject: the botanical garden. The result of the colonial illusion of being able to collect and order all the world's forests in one place, it consists of an ever-evolving multi-identity. In the film, Barroso transformes the garden, through dreamlike fiction, from a mute object into an acting subject. Opening up the spectator's imagination to an impossible rupture of the glass and steel prison that contains it, the vegetation of the garden hopes for an irruption into the space of the city in order to overthrow its order. Through disorder, an echo of the forests from which it was violently extrapolated, the garden becomes a queer forest never before conceived.
A 16mm work that, through speculative fiction, gives voice to the plants of the Copenhagen Botanical Garden established in 1872. While the order of events and anthropic control prevent a rewinding of time and the return of these plant-bodies to their sylvan nature, the narrative stratagem put on film by the artist reconfigures what can be said, seen, done. Thus imagined is a dreamlike escape into the city, where the vegetable bodies of the garden's inhabitants have finally abolished the fence that contained and ordered them, taking possession of the space stolen from them. They will become, in a very long, deep and unimaginable time, a new form of queer forest, an alliance of all those entities previously taken by men.
Exposición. 13 nov de 2024 - 22 nov de 2024 / Àngels Barcelona - espai 2 / Barcelona, España
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
