Glorias de un futuro olvidado
Adrian Melis
ADN Galeria, Barcelona | Paris
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Première
- Title
- Glorias de un futuro olvidado
- Gallery
- ADN Galeria, Barcelona | Paris
- Year
- 2016
- Duration
- 5 min
- Format & Technical
Three channel installation, HD video, colour, sound
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Adrian Melis asked some elder Cuban women to remember a moment of their past histories through a song. It was a time in their lives when they thought their future would have been bright and glorious. What remains of their wishes is just that moment of mental illusion depicted in the video, a reminder of a hypothetical future of glory.
Glorias de un futuro olvidado (Glories of a forgotten future) is a three-channel video of Adrian Melis made in 2016 with the collaboration of Cuban elder women to which the artist asked to remember a moment of their past histories through a song. Most of the women chosen for the project had been young during the period right before the triumph of the revolution and during the transition (in the 50’s-60’s). It was a time in their lives when they thought their future would have been bright and glorious. Melis asked to mentally place themselves in a club or ballroom of the era of capitalist Cuba, going beyond the mere memory of the past. Most of them lost everything they had and their promising future dreams vanished with the transition. What remains is that moment of mental illusion depicted in the video, a reminder of a hypothetical future of glory.
Stills
Adrian Melis is based between Cuba and Europe. He is a former resident at the Rijksakademie van Beldeende Kunsten of Amsterdam (2014/2015). In 2010 he graduated from the University of Art (ISA) in Havana, Cuba and between 2006/2008 participated at the Catedra of Behavioural Art directed by Tania Bruguera.
Since 2010 his work has been represented by ADN Galeria in Barcelona where he has had four solo shows since: Selective Memory (2018), Surplus Production Line (2015), Time To Relax (2013) and New Production Structures (2012). The first two exhibitions that took place in 2012 and 2013 received the Award Art Nou by the Association of Galleries in Barcelona and the GAC Award for Best Exhibition in a Private Gallery in Barcelona, respectively.
Selected solo shows include: Absolute silence does not exist, 2017, Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia (Cerezales, Spain), The Value of Absence, 2013, Kunsthalle Basel (Switzerland); STOCK, 2014, Museum of Modern Art, MAS (Santander, Spain), New Production Structures, 2013, Adn Galeria (Barcelona, Spain).
Last update: October 28th, 2020.
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