This exhibition owes its title to a Carles Duran movie, Liberxina/90, which was censored by the Franco regime. A lot remains to be said about Duran, a filmmaker and member of the School of Barcelona, just like there is still a lot to explore in the cinema of Gonzalo Herralde or in the experimental films of Àngel Jové. We must also ask ourselves about the only woman filmmaker who visited Barcelona in 1968, Jackie Raynal. We cannot think about new artistic behaviours without considering this plurality of voices and perspectives that insist on a critical exploration of the object: the mechanisms, techniques and processes through which we got to it, the system that articulates it and defines it, and the subject-spectator that perceives it. In a way, we are witnessing a time when, under the idea of destruction and construction, the new creative codes are established. A crisis of the systems we already know is sought, taking into consideration all the signifiers and the signified notions, and an opening towards new ways of understanding artistic creation is longed for. Thinking about the different productions that take place over these years undoubtedly brings us closer to a new consciousness and subjectivity, not only of the artist but also –and this is important– of the spectator.
Imma Prieto is an art critic and independent curator. She teaches Contemporary art and New Media at the Eram School of the University of Girona, and lectures in the MA Program in Curatorial Studies at the Ramon Llull University of Barcelona. She has curated several exhibitions nationally and internationally (TempArtSpace-NewYork, Hirshhorn Museum-Washington, MucaRoma-Mexico Central American Isthmus Biennial-Guatemala, Palazzo Ca ‘Tron-Venice, Joan Miró Foundation Barcelona, Fabra i Coats-Barcelona, Bòlit-Girona, among others).
She regularly writes in newspapers and magazines (such as La Vanguardia, Bonart, A*Desk and Artichoke) and is the author of artists catalogs as well as of books on art theory and aesthetics. She has been manager of the research group ELAA (European Live Art Archive), formed by the University of Girona, the University of Oxford and the artist residence Glaugair in Berlin, and is a member of the Chair of Contemporary Art and Culture of the University of Girona, the AICA (International Art Critics Association) and the IAC (Institute of Spanish Art).
Last update: April 4th, 2017