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Paraules d’Amor

Núria Güell

Title
Paraules d’Amor
Year
2024

The list of Western cultural representations about love and passion is endless: from Greek mythology and its tragedies, to Christian scholasticism, courtly love, the Golden Age, the romanticism of the 18th and part of the 19th centuries, all the way up to the most popular or alternative cultural expressions of our time. Each has borne witness to the ravages caused by ideals of love.

On the level of reality, we continue to suffer the believers who exterminate others in the name of the love of a God; the nationalists who continue to throw themselves into mutual destruction for the love of some fatherland or motherland; the teenagers who understand celotypic traits as signs of true love; the mother who kills her children so that they will not suffer; the revolutionaries who give their lives or take them for the love of an idea of social revolution; or the lover who decides to kill his loved one (or the other way round) on seeing that his love has been lost.

What is the responsibility of culture in all these paradoxes? How many dramaturgically pre-established situations have we experienced in our stories of love? What pleasures or ghosts are hidden behind the mask of beliefs about the ideal of love? Could it be that the main cause of social conflicts is not hatred but an excess of blind love? What effects would the de-idealisation of love have on social order? And on us?

  • Video Creation Award la Xarxa i Loop 2024

Núria Güell

Artist
www.nuriaguell.net

1981, Girona

Núria Güell

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.