1+1+1+…: Claudia del Barrio. ‘quality time | GRWM’
8 — 20 November 2022
- Artists
- Clàudia del Barrio
- Curators
- Carla Gimeno Jaria
- Venues
- Fundació Enric Miralles
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We currently spend 3 hours and 43 minutes a day on our mobile devices, spending a total of 2 hours and 27 minutes scrolling through various channels on social networks. Unlike our presence in conventional communications channels, in which we were usually mere consumers of content, on social networks we are often also creators. The figure of the virtual spectator, which has become especially important in recent years due to the accelerated expansion of the Internet, is what Alvin Toffler defined as a prosumer in the seventies.
Prosumers consume and produce simultaneously, while social networks store hours and hours of content. These pictures, videos or audio recordings commercialise our life experiences on the virtual world under the watchful gaze of brands and/or multinational companies, turning them into easily-devoured popular culture. This vicious circle both feeds us and leads us to spend part of our daily time on our virtual presence.
quality time | GRWM is the first part of a piece that is 3 hours and 43 minutes long and which researches this phenomenon based on audio recordings from the internet and footage by the artist, recreating the time we spend investing in our online egos. In this first 30-minute part, Clàudia del Barrio invites us to consume a Get Ready With Me (GRWM), a ritual in which influences share the first moments of the day with their followers. These videos, which are streamed live, have become virtual spaces in which intimate moments, which may involve important subjects such as mental health, are also shared. Thus, by delving into these spaces, the artist also reflects on the banalisation of sensitive content.
Clàudia del Barrio
- Artist
Video artist whose practice focuses on the construction of identity through the intersection of popular culture with the narratives of fiction that emerge from new visual media. Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (2016). She has participated in the exhibitions: Un alfabet a les fosques at Center d’Art Maristany (2022), Fin de Fiesta at Sala d’Art Jove (2022), MMMAD x MIRA Festival (2021), State of Mainstream at Homesession (2021), See Time Go By at Upstream Gallery Amsterdam (2020), Albacete, destino para las artes y el recreo at La Casa Vieja (Albacete, 2019), Mostra3 at ROVER (Palermo, 2018), Certified fresh, free range, organic art at La Cera 13 for LOOP Festival (Barcelona, 2018), Hotel Andalucía at etHALL for Art Nou (Barcelona, 2018), among others. He has completed residencies at the BilbaoArte Foundation (2017), at the RAD’ART Project (2017) and at the Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats (2016).
Carla Gimeno Jaria
1994, Barcelona
Carla Gimeno Jaria (Barcelona, 1994) es curadora e investigadora. Su práctica explora el impacto del semiocapitalismo en los cuerpos; cómo se constituyen, se afectan, se relacionan y se comportan en este contexto. Después de estudiar el grado de Comunicación e Industrias Culturales en la Universidad de Barcelona, hizo el postgrado en Análisis de Arte Contemporáneo en la misma universidad. El 2018 se graduó en el máster Curating & Collections por la University of the Arts London (UAL).
Recientemente ha comisariado proyectos en South London Gallery, Londres; The Koppel Project, Londres; Flat Time House, Londres; CC Can Felipa, Barcelona; àngels barcelona, Barcelona; Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona; CC La Farinera del Clot, Barcelona. También ha escrito artículos para OnCurating, ISIT Magazine, METAL Magazie, El Punt Avui y Häsel i Gretel.