The exhibition The End is Where We Start From, showing U.S. curator Karin Campbell’s viewpoints on Barcelona’s emerging artistic scene, was unveiled this Friday at Espai 13.
The five art projects that will be on display until 2012 are based on the artists’ personal life experiences and anecdotes; and reflect, through a variety of techniques, the creation processes of a work of art, of the construction of a discourse. The title of the series is taken from Little Gidding, a poem by T.S. Eliot written in the 1940s: “What we call the beginning is often the end/ and to make an end is to make a beginning/ The end is where we start from.”
The essence, the element that unifies them, is the necessary intervention of the public in the piece, which enriches the creators’ narratives by becoming actively involved. Artists and viewers are invited to think about a few questions: What is the role played by visitors of museum exhibition and how can they affect or change the present or future of an art project? In what way can one’s experience of an exhibition extend beyond the simple the act of looking? In these five exhibitions the public will have the opportunity to draw up new beginnings for the “end” of each story.
The artists featured in the cycle are: Mireia C. Saladrigues (Terrassa, 1978), Daniela Ortiz (Cuzco, Peru, 1985), Mariona Moncunill (Tarragona, 1984), Alex Reynolds (Bilbao, 1978)and Mireia Sallarès (Barcelona, 1973).
Mireia c. Saladrigues’ Her Museum will be on display until November 13. It is an installation based on stories by Montserrat Saló, a security guard in a Barcelona museum. To the artist, security guards play a relevant role in a museum’s life as they become the main sources for the institution’s memories.
We will be keeping you posted on the progress of the cycle. For further information, visit http://www.fundaciomiro-bcn.org.
Fundación Joan Miró
Parc de Montjuïc, s/n
08038 Barcelona
Source: Press release
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