A horsetail shaking in all directions, suspended disembodied in space acts as an analogy between the ancient spatial conquest (analogical, by land and between humans) and the current conquest of outer space, through sophisticated technology propelled towards the universe.

The space race today represents thousands of artificial objects orbiting around the earth, thousands of ferrous Pegasus galloping towards the unknown.
A paradigm shift in migration or a curious way of programming the original chaos.

Bringing the word Western closer to our version of “Occidental”, re-constructing life under the supremacy of the fake, keeping bodies in constant motion through technological devices and power supplies.

Sound developer: Juan Segura

Bernat Millet’s project, Blue Collar Workers, symbolises the static position the worker holds in a new scenario where machines overtake human activity. The fixed position of their arms and hands reflects the sudden sense of being out of place. For generations, their identity has been linked to working the steel, but stillness is coming closer and the fog of alienation is a permanent presence. Light plays a key role in an arctic landscape where the cold steel freezes every human movement.

The students of the Secondary School of the Avenç de Sant Cugat have been developing small projects related with the notion of the city. Departing from questions such as “What is the ideal city?” or “What should the best city in the world look like?” they created different pieces: a series of video proposals where the city is presented as a space for experimentation, imaginary postcards, and a video installation. In doing so, they have gotten closer to contemporary artistic practice and the language of video art.

Literatura expandida is a video exhibition that explores the way in which images are present in the depths of the literary act. In the works of Jordi Lara (Vic, 1968), the camera becomes the writer’s notebook, from where literature expands into an explosion of images. This video exhibition showcases a number of works and studies. On the one hand, Estudis germinals groups a series of film pieces that stemmed from the exploration of a written work to generate new texts; on the other, Estudis recreatius includes proposals that use video as a language and a format to recreate the literary universes of Thomas Mann, Màrius Torres, Mercè Rodoreda, or even Josep Maria Folch i Torres.