FUTURO VARIABLE (Variable Future)

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Sascha Pohflepp, Felix Luque and Àlex Nogue exhibit at Bòlit, Contemporary Art Center in Girona, Spain, their reflections on the future, through references to spheres such as science fiction, philosophy or synthetic biology and artificial intelligence.

Ginsberg (London, 1982) along with Pohflepp (Colonia, 1978), Luque (Oviedo, 1976) and Nogue (Hostalets d’en Bas, 1953) are creators with different origins and generations that work with a sort of antithetical language, from the minimum possible technology (graphite pencil and water in the case of Nogue) to sophisticated computer programs that bring about complex interactive systems, including nineteenth-century illustration and advanced industrial design.

Felix Luque presents Chapter I: The Discovery (2009), interactive installation defined as “science fiction story”, as it gives spectators the opportunity of living an experience that entails a series of elements related to the future. On the other hand, between science fiction and cutting-edge technology, Growth Assembly (2009) by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Sascha Pohflepp proposes the construction of new generation objects for a future that demands new ways of interaction with the environment and productions systems, by displaying seven drawings (naturalist illustrations) and one demonstrative video that show how industries can get along with nature, radically transforming production and distribution chains as they are known in the 20th century. Nogue’s Codi de subsistència (2010), is a philosophical thought that invites to attend the death of a nature’s icon (tree) in real scale and time, an unstoppable process, from an installation made up of a large size drawing that’s placed in front of a liquid surface, in which it’s reflected.

Among the collateral activities, we can mention the drawing Master Classby Nogue himself, who is also a professor at Barcelona’s university, to be held on July 14, 1700-1900 hours, at the city’s Museum of History.

Futuro variable

Through September 18

Bòlit. Centre d'Art Contemporani. Girona

Pujada de la Mercè 12 17004 Girona

Tel. 972 427 627 / 972 223 305

www.bolit.cat

Source: Press release sent to this editorial office