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Ester Partegàs

Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona

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Title
Ghost
Gallery
Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona
Year
2009
Duration
1 min 30 s
Format & Technical

Cast polyurethane, single-channel video projection
Sculpture: 196 × 112 × 3 cm (77 1/8 × 44 1/8 × 1 1/8 inches)

Contact

Alex Nogueras
alex@noguerasblanchard.com

Projected on what looks like a discarded piece of styrofoam, the video Ghost (2009) shows a pile of industrial waste lying next to a puddle of water, in which a billboard is reflected advertising an I-Pod. The advertisement screen changes color and a dove takes flight. Despite its desolation, a certain beauty emanates from the sinister. Partegàs addresses the theme of publicity as generator of empty necessities, its power to seduce as a hint on the impermanent condition of material life. In a happenstance choreography, the elements of this urban ecosystem function as a reminder that revelations arise, unexpectedly, in the ordinary.

Stills

Still

Ester Partegàs

Artist, Participant
esterpartegas.com

1972, Barcelona

Ester Partegàs

Ester Partegàs was born in La Garriga, Barcelona, Spain, in 1972. Lives and works in New York, US. Her most important solo exhibitions include: ´Poems for Supermarkets´, REMA1000 Supermarket, Copenhague (2016); ´Window´, FOUR AM, Lower East Side, New York (2016); ´The Source’, Public Sculpture for Percent For Art, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Commission, New York, US (2015); ‘The Restless Gardens. Curating the Collection’, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain (2015); ‘Samesation’, Domus Artium 2, Salamanca, Spain (2013), ‘Tale of Two Gardens’, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, US (2012). She has also taken part in group shows as: ´No todo es color´, Sala la Pasión, Valladolid, Spain (2018); ‘Art in the Open. Fifty Years of Public Art in New York City’, Museum of the city of New York, New York, US (2017); ‘Matèria Primera’, Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, Spain (2017); ‘Gut feelings’, Zuckerman Museum of Art Galleries, Kennesaw University, Georgia, US (2017); ‘Una Mirada abierta. Colección Coca-Cola’, La conservera, Murcia, Spain (2016); ‘El desarreglo. El curioso caso del arte despeinado. Colección Artium’, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2015); ‘In __ We Trust: Art and Money’, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbia, US (2015); ‘Los jardines inquietos’, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain (2015); ‘Especies de Espacio’, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain (2015); ‘Branched. Trees in Contemporary Art’, Museum Sinclair Haus / Altana Kultur Stiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany (2014).

Last Update: October, 2020