Reserve
Gerard Ortín’s project for Espai 13 explores the meaning of the boundaries that human beings set in order to counter the harmful effects of their activity on certain natural environments.
- Exhibition program
- The Possibility of an Island
- Dates
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- Curated by
- Alexandra Laudo
An island is a symbol of independence and self-sufficiency, but it can also be a place of segregation and confinement. It can evoke images of paradise, but also of self-contained tourist resorts. Historically, islands have been objects of colonial power, but also places for social and political utopias. Perhaps, above all, an island is a metaphor for a state of solitude, retreat and introspection.
The exhibition program The Possibility of an Island explores some of the symbolic and socio-cultural meanings that islands - those paradigmatic spaces in our collective imagination - have had over the course of time, with the aim of raising questions and reflections about these meanings that may be pertinent to our contemporary context.
Espai 13 is a pioneering space that hosts projects by emerging artists and freelance curators. Since 1978 it has produced shows of over 500 artists curated by young professionals keen to cut their teeth in a public exhibition space that has been a launch pad for artists, curators and cultural managers.
Exhibitions
Shipwrecked Species
In her project for Espai 13, Irene de Andrés develops an ensemble of pieces that comprises videos, photographs, documents, texts, sculptural elements and found objects which she uses to explore the case of the San José from different angles.
Non-Slave Tenderness
In Non-Slave Tenderness, Lucía C. Pino undertakes a sculptural investigation to build a future island stronghold, a semi-isolated science fiction landscape where the toxic and waste element is inseparable from the biotic, a place where cables, glass, tubes, light, water, sounds and even people establish a relationship of equivalence with one another.
The Odyssey
Bárbara Sánchez Barroso explores journeys as a metaphor for personal quests. The artist revisits the Odysseus myth with the aim of stripping it of all things epic or heroic, and relates it to a journey that she herself unfertakes by sea to retrace her own origins.
I am vertical
Lisa Gideonsson and Gustaf Londré are two Swedish visual artists who have worked as an artistic duo since 2009 under the name Gideonsson / Londré. For Fundació Joan Miró’s Espai 13, they are preparing a project that explores the idea of verticality and the effects, both physical and psychological, that human beings experience at very high altitudes.
