Perejaume. ‘Make Room’.
17 November 2021 — 30 March 2022
- Artists
- Perejaume
- Curators
- Marina Vinyes Albes, Perejaume and Jaume Coscollar
- Venue
- Filmoteca de Catalunya
- Price
- Free admission
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In the middle of the Raval it is very easy to see the current space of the Filmoteca as a trench of projections. Likewise, within the activity of the institution, the functions of conservation, archive, receptacle and hoarding of images, are very present. Both things have invited us to show this fixed plane of a projector that, facing a ditch in the middle of a field, will spend four months endeavouring to restore some images to the world.
I don’t know to what extent, with this proposal for restitution, planting and rest, we´ll be able to make a bit of room, liberating the corresponding corner of the world of its saturation. In the end, it is very easy for the operation to take the form of yet another image. But!
For years now, I have been preaching this gesture of returning works to the world, with the aim that creation and dissolution coexist in a more intertwined way. The more fertilely they are intertwined, the better. And it goes without saying that fertility arises, to the extent that, more or less slowly, any creation becomes reabsorbed into the environment. The relations between fertility and conservation are complex by nature, but it is clear that when intervening in a space like the current one, which is increasingly crowded with imagery, the alternative between creating a gap and occupying a gap becomes increasingly clear and decisive.
Just as silent film exists, with all the agitation of images it entailed more than a century ago, I wonder if we could not talk about blind film as a name for the prevalence of possible imaginings, images that have that have not yet wanted to take form: just the right capacity of images, with a minimal presence to glimpse what lies in the background. It is wonderful to think of the absence of form as a state prior to the presence of form and not as a deprivation of form. Wonderful to think of the as yet unborn light of a cinema that cannot be imagined because its images prefer to remain inhumed, trapped in the general magnitude, encrypted, black in the black earth.
Let’s go back to the gesture of the action. A smell halfway between ruffled grass, and that of grass crushed by the weight of light. The nocturnal film projection on tilled earth now raises a different order of questions: Can the illusion of cinema space regenerate a field? Can we conceive of stalks of grass as images botanically reborn? For example, can a blade of fescue, arise from an enacted scene? Has anything ever sprouted from a land irrigated with images?
Perejaume
Perejaume
- Artist
1957, Sant Pol de Mar
Lives and works in Sant Pol de Mar.
Perejaume started to exhibit his work during the late seventies and since then he has been developing it in parallel, either in visual disciplines or in literary extension.
The landscape is a recurring subject analyzed and explored in his work, retaking and reevaluating the presence it has had most of all, in its literary and visual production. Through this approach, his relationship with the landscape is examined from diverse points of view none of which are exempt of irony. Points of view that are shaped through painting, sculpture, photography, installations, video or the intervention on the natural environment itself. For Perejaume, man is part of the landscape, he isn’t an outsider to it and he is yet another agent in its conformation and evolution, as if the geologic time would have been accelerated.
Marina Vinyes Albes
1986, Barcelona
Marina Vinyes Albes holds a degree in Humanities from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where she also specialised in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies. Later she studied Design of Cultural Projects at the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, thus developing her professional life between Catalonia and France. Since February 2020, she is Head of programming, educational services and exhibitions at the Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona. In Paris, she has been a professor at the Faculté des Lettres of the Sorbonne University, where she is preparing her PhD thesis, and has worked in the artistic projects department of the Jeu de Paume, where she has curated numerous film cycles between 2013 and 2018 and the video installations’ exhibition Omer Fast. Le present continue (2015). In Barcelona, she has collaborated with the EUROM (The European Observatory on Memories), the CCCB, the Open City Thinking Biennale, the ICUB, the Maresme Biennial of Contemporary Art and the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation in the organisation of seminars, film programmes and cultural activities. In 2013 she received the Walter Benjamin Memorial International Prize for her unpublished essay Usos i abusos de la imatge en l’univers audiovisual de la Shoah (Uses and Abuses of the Image in the Audiovisual Universe of the Shoah, Documenta Universitària, 2015).
Last updated 3rd October 2020
Perejaume
Perejaume started to exhibit his work during the late seventies and since then he has been developing it in parallel, either in visual disciplines or in literary extension.
The landscape is a recurring subject analyzed and explored in his work, retaking and reevaluating the presence it has had most of all, in its literary and visual production. Through this approach, his relationship with the landscape is examined from diverse points of view none of which are exempt of irony. Points of view that are shaped through painting, sculpture, photography, installations, video or the intervention on the natural environment itself.
For Perejaume, man is part of the landscape, he isn’t an outsider to it and he is yet another agent in its conformation and evolution, as if the geologic time would have been accelerated.
Jaume Coscollar
Architect specialised in theory and history of architecture and musical studies. He had been working for four years in París. On 2018 he opened Taller Ponti, where he combines architecture with other practises such as curacy and expositive espaces design and edition.
He has leadered Bases per unes polítiques d’art públic – Ajuntament de Barcelona . In addition, he has curated exhibitions Guardar Fora and D’un or que crema by Perejaume, artist with whom he collaborates in multiple projects. He also has participated in numerous conferences, presentations and talks.
Last update 22 October 2021
