Whore. Essay on masculinity, Nuria Güell
Saturday 16 November 2019, 7 pm
- Artists
- Núria Güell
- Venue
- LA BONNE
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Within the framework of the Loop Festival , La Bonne co-organized the screening of the movie whore. Essay on masculinity artist Nuria Güell.
To perform this work, Nuria explains: ” I decided to engage the services of several prostitutes to tell me, through their experience and knowledge, which was his idea of masculinity. The result of these meetings is to show through a video loop that is repeated again and again. The content of the work may offend adults. ”
Nuria Güell artistic practice is to analyze how the devices could affect our subjectivity, subjecting it through law and moral hegemony. The main resources used are flirting with the established powers, complicity with different partners and use of privileges that have artistic institutions with which it works, as well as those that are granted their status as socially Spanish Europe. Tactics, diluted in his own life, developed in specific contexts with the aim of questioning the assumed identities and cause a disruption in power relations.
In collaboration with Loop Festival and Bòlit Contemporary Art Center of Girona.
Núria Güell (Girona, 1981) flirts with the powers that be, joins forces with collaborators who are in on the project, and takes advantage of the privileges offered by the artistic institutions she works with, as well as those she enjoys as a Spaniard and European, to analyze the way in which power structures affect our subjectivity and attempt to change those connections. Güell’s recent solo shows include exhibitions at MUSAC, Léon (Spain) and at Maczul Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Maracaibo (Venezuela) in 2018, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and the Project Arts Centre in Dublin in 2016, the Vienna Brut Konzerthaus in 2015, and Salle Zéro in Havana in 2013. She also works regularly with a number of self-managed art and social centers. Núria Güell is represented by the ADN Gallery in Barcelona.Güell’s artistic practice is about the analysis of how power devices affect our subjectivity, subjecting it to law and hegemonic moral. The main resources that she uses in her work are to flirt with the established powers, complicity with different allies and the uses of privileges that artistic institutions she works with have, as well as those socially granted to her for being a Spanish and European. These tactics, diluted into her own life, are developed in specific contexts intending to question commonly-assumed identifications and cause a disruption in power relations.
