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CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo presents two new projects: Lara
Almarcegui. Madrid Underneath, a show that relies on the investigation
on the subsoil of Madrid, released in a book, and Telling everything,
Not Knowing How, an exhibition about narrativity and contemporary
art.
The exhibition Lara Almarcegui. Madrid Underneath
is based on a project specifically developed by the artist for CA2M,
consisting of a publication of a book that reveals what lies beneath the
ground of Madrid, which hardly ever is shown to citizens: its historic,
archaeological, and utility layers; transportation; communication; and
energy circulation and water pipes. The show also displays alongside some
of her earlier projects, consisting of a total of 21 photographs, slides,
projections, or posters to help contextualise her work and understand the
scope of her professional career.
The narrative which gives
shape to the exhibition is based on a repetition with certain
variations—each one of the three galleries of the exhibition is
organized as follows: a guidebook of city wastelands, the construction
materials of a city or of its historical center, an action of removing the
ground from the exhibition galleries to put it back in place once observed,
and the photographic documentation from the wastelands with temporal and
permanent protection achieved by the artist. This approach makes more
readable the variation within Almarcegui’s methods as well as the
reasons that make her intervene in a site rather than in another become
explicit: her projects are tools which allows representing those sites in
moments of transformation or of imminent change, critical moments that
translate into the museum galleries through devices, which at once are
developed in time.
Telling Everything, Not Knowing How
is a double format project. On the one side, an exhibition within the CA2M
galleries, displaying works that incorporate narrative possibilities, which
questions the fact of how to explain; on the other side, the publication of
a novel written by Marti Manen, curator of the exhibition, that works as a
second version of the exhibition. The show presents the work from 10
artists: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Rosana
Antolí, Rosa Barba, Keren
Cytter, Kajsa Dahlberg, Lilli
Hartmann, Rosalind Nashashibi / Lucy Skaer,
Christodoulos Panayiotou, Job Ramos, and
Alex Reynolds.
Telling Everything, Not
Knowing How reflects about what can be done and what can be told from
the art side, which role-plays the emotion within the narrative and also
which fiction, reality, political, and social contents appear within the
contemporary creation. The physical exhibition at CA2M presents a series of
key works that talk about the narrative and contemporary art. Including
different installations, video and film projects, photography, and
text-based works which coexist in a permanent dialogue where there is a
distinguished need of interaction with the visitor.
*Image
above:
Eija-Liisa Ahtila, The House, 2002. Copyright Crystal
Eye Ltd, Helsinki Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris.
Photo: Jaime Villanueva.
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