Eulàlia Rovira i Adrian Schindler. ‘The Plague, the Profit’
8 — 20 November 2022
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Focusing on carmine, a colour that the indigenous communities of Mesoamerica extracted from the cochineal centuries before the arrival of the settlers, “La plaga, el provecho” (The plague, the profit) retraces the interweaving of colonial extractivism, the displacement of species, baroque painting and the rise and fall of the Spanish empire. Composed of a stroboscopic sequence of macro-photographs that get close to the wear and tear of sensitive matter, the residues of a great trade and the hands of those who still take care of this insect, the video inquires whether a myopic approach can generate a counter-image to dominant narratives.
This work has been developed with the support of The Green Parrot, Barcelona, Beca Premi Ciutat de Barcelona 2020 and the collaboration of Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC, Barcelona), Museo de América (Madrid), Asociación Milana and Cooperativa Agrícola Guatiza Mala (Lanzarote).
Eulàlia Rovira y Adrian Schindler
Eulàlia Rovira (Barcelona, 1985) and Adrian Schindler (Périgueux, FR, 1989) have been working in collaboration since 2013. They have had solo exhibitions at The Green Parrot, Barcelona (2022), Pradiauto, Madrid (2021), Homesession, Barcelona (2019), Musée de Bibracte, Saint-Léger-sur-Beuvray (2018), Espai Dos-Sala Muncunill, Terrassa (2018) and Fireplace, Barcelona (2016); and they have participated in group exhibitions and/or screenings at FID Marseille (2021), Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona (2020), ethall, l’Hospitalet (2019), Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (2018), àngelsbarcelona (2017), CC Montehermoso, Vitoria (2017), and Turf Projects, Croydon (2016). Grants include the Beca d’Arts Visual Fundació Güell (2018) and the Beca Premi Ciutat de Barcelona (2020). They graduated in Fine Arts -Universitat de Barcelona and Beaux-Arts de Paris respectively- and have completed the postgraduate master programme Art in Context at the UdK Berlin.