Matteo Guidi (Cesena, Italy, 1978) lives in Barcelona. He operates at the intersection between art and anthropology, investigating complex contexts of more or less closed structures.

His practice looks into the ways individuals, or groups of, manage their own movement, on a daily basis, through strongly defined systems which tend to objectify them and even induce forms of self restraint. Reflecting on unpredictable methods of daily resistance sparked by a combination of simplicity and ingenuity, he focus on contexts that are considered marginal or exceptional but, in reality, anticipate more common scenarios.

He has participated in exhibitions, festival and biennals in national context such as Lo Pati art center (E), La Capella, Homesession, Galería Àngels Espai 2, Fundación Suñol, Santa Mònica Art Center and Barcelona Design Museum; Galeria AB9, Murcia (E), Valls bienal, Valls (E); and international context such as Bienalsur, Cùcuta (CO); Ok.Video.Festival, Jakarta (ID); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wake eld (UK); Magasin Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Grenoble (F); Por Estos Dias, Medellin (CO); CCE Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo (U); Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (I) and the Center For Design Resarch & Education of Hanyang University Kyunggido (KR).

He alternate his artistic and anthropological research with academic profession. He teaches in the BA of graphic design and visual communication at the ISIA Urbino (Italy).

He held talks, mastercalss and workshops in several other institutions such as Festival Loop, Escola massana Barcelona, Casa Asia Barcelona, University of Barcelona, CaixaForum Barcelona, La Virreina Image Centre, Barcelona; Free University of Bozen Bolzano (IT); Museum of modern Art, Cagliari (IT); Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne (D), ESAD School of Art and Design, Matosinho (P) and International Academy of Art Palestine, Ramallah (PS).

Form 2006 is member of CoMoDo (Communicates Multiply Duties) social design cooperative, from 2015 is member of A/A Network (Art and Anthropology Network) and from 2018 is also collaborating with GREDITS (Design and Social Transformation Research Group of BAU).

His work is in the following public collections:

Centre d’art Lo pati, Amposta (E)

Stone Masons Cooperative Museum, Porto (P)

Museum of Academy of Fine Art of the City of Porto (P)

Last update, 23 October 2019

Mireia Sallarès is a visual artist and guest artist at the Institut Supérieur des Arts in Toulouse, France. A graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, ​​she studied film at the New School University and at the Film & Video Arts Institute in New York. She lives in transit between Barcelona and other foreign cities where she develops her artistic practice. The condition of alienation is fundamental in her projects that are the result of long research on essential issues such as violence, pleasure, legality, truth, love or labour. She uses video as a tool to develop anthropological research and political narrative from situated feminisms. Her latest project Kao malo vode na dlanu, a research on the notion of love in Serbia, part of her unfinished Trilogy of waste concepts (truth, love and work), has received the 2019’s City of Barcelona Award for Visual Arts and the ACCA Award. She participated in the exhibition Feminisms! at the CCCB-Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, with the project Las Muertes Chiquitas. Her work has been presented at the CCCB, the MACBA, the Fundació Joan Miró, the Art Santa Mónica, La Capella, Fabra i Coats-Centre for Contemporary Art, the CA Tarragona; at ARCO, the Madrid Fine Arts Circle, the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico, the Anthology Film Archives, and the New York University in New York, the Facets in Chicago; at the OK Centrum in Linz, Austria; at the Galleri Image in Arhus, Denmark; at the Center for Contemporary Art in Glasgow, Scotland; at the Nelson Garrido Organization of Caracas, Venezuela; at the Museum of Modern Art in Puerto Rico, at the SKC in Belgrade, Serbia, at the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, and at the TEA in Tenerife, among others. Some of her works are part of the MACBA collection.

Last update 27th April 2021