Belonging
Thursday 18 November 2021, 4 — 5:30 pm
- Participants
- Carles Guerra, Théo-Mario Coppola and Julia Gorostidi
- Moderator
- Dorian Sari
- Venues
- La Pedrera
- Language
- English
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When we think about the body, it cannot be separated from the idea of belonging. We are all born from a mother with the feeling of being a part of hers for a certain amount of time. Then arrives the transformation of the feeling of belonging in a society and what kind of patterns it develops first psychologically then physically. Body means a concentration of a certain type of energy. And it has a tendency to declare its own independence. Taking his research as an artist, Dorian Sari will guide a conversation expanding on how to understand, reflect on and make visible the relationship of some of the most basic human emotions versus the collective's ones through the language of video artwork.
Carles Guerra
- Curator, Moderator, Participant, Speaker
Carles Guerra is an artist, art critic and independent curator. He holds a PhD from Universitat de Barcelona. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat de Barcelona and the Media Studies Department, The New School for Social Research. His most recent profile has been associated with outstanding positions in the field of cultural management, cultural policies and curatorial activities. He has been Director of Primavera Fotogràfica de Catalunya, Director of the Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Chief curator at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA and, from 2015 through 2020, Executive director at Fundació Antoni Tàpies.
On top of a vast number of monographic exhibitions devoted to individual artists such as Ahlam Shibli, Art & Language, Allan Sekula, Susan Meiselas, Harun Farocki, Oriol Vilanova and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, he has curated projects like 1979. A Monument to Radical Instants and Antoni Tàpies. Political Biography.
Last update: 16th November, 2020
Théo-Mario Coppola
- Curator
Théo-Mario Coppola is a curator and arts writer. They are currently based in Paris, France.
Viewing aesthetic issues as inherently tied to social struggles, Théo-Mario Coppola’s curatorial and critical practice engages with research-based, experimental, narrative and political forms. The projects they have conducted deal with experiences of concrete utopia, personal and collective narratives of emancipation, as well as initiatives of resistance, and examine how these enable the transformation of values in art, governance and society.
Their recent curated exhibitions and programmes include three annual chapters of the HOTEL EUROPA series in various cities across Europe between 2017 and 2019, the third edition of the Nuit Blanche arts festival at Villa Medici in Rome, Italy, in 2018, and the eleventh edition of the MOMENTUM biennale in Moss, Norway, in 2021.
Théo-Mario Coppola has contributed to catalogues, magazines and online publications. They regularly lecture on radical aesthetic practices at art schools and universities.
Last update: November 17th, 2022
Julia Gorostidi
- Artist, Participant
Artist based in Barcelona
