UnderLOOP
19 — 27 May 2017, 7 pm
- Artists
- Marion Balac, Azahara Cerezo, Claudia Oliveira, Andrea D. Revesz and Christina Schultz
- Curators
- Amanda Masha Caminals
- Venue
- Cine Avenida de la Luz
- Contributor
- This project was made possible by CASIO, in collaboration with Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya and Amics de La Rambla
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'UnderLOOP' is a video art exhibition that proposes the re-opening of the old Cine Avenida de la Luz to promote contemporary artists.
The event breathes new life into the emblematic cinema at the underground of Pelayo Street, which was part of the post Civil War urban project “Avenida de la Luz”: a passage below ground that started hosting household goods shops and transformed into a meeting point for countercultural leisure during the transition to democracy. Also known as “the laughter palace” for its initial programme of Disney films, the children’s pictures theatre transitioned into a porn cinema and ended up closing its doors with the Barcelona Olympics.
UnderLOOP brings back the old cinema to contemporary culture by giving visibility to a series of artists that work temporary or permanently at a local level, but outside the main commercial or institutional fabric of the city. In dialogue with the space, the selected works mark the importance of site-specificity and the development of landscapes and territories through the binary ‘individual-environment’ or ‘collective-environment’.
Artists: Marion Balac, Azahara Cerezo, Claudia Oliveira, Andrea D. Revesz, Christina Schultz
Amanda Masha Caminals
Amanda Masha Caminals is founder and co-director of the platform Translocalia, where she develops its network of creative professionals and curates projects in urban contexts in collaboration with artists engaged in participatory practices. As an independent curator, she recently directed the project CITY STATION, part of the exhibition After the End of the World at the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). Prior to that, she worked in cultural institutions including InIVA and Autograph ABP in London and Casa Triângulo in São Paulo. She curated shows such as Stephen Dean: Jugglers (Casa Triângulo, São Paulo) or INTERSTITIAL ZONES (The Showroom Gallery and Matt’s Gallery, London) and Black Spring, A project for people I don’t know or Chora in the urban contexts of Lahore, São Paulo and London. She holds a BA in Humanities from Pomepu Fabra University in Barcelona, a Degree in History of Art from the University of Barcelona and an MA Hons in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London.
Last update, 14th June 2018
