Una fábrica, una máquina, un cuerpo...
Through the work of a series of contemporary artists, A Factory, a Machine, a Body... Archaeology and the Memory of Industrial Spaces seeks to create a fragmentary and therefore always incomplete map of the way in which artists have used industrial production as a metaphor to explain the condition of the contemporary subject within the last two decades, a period of time in which the standards for looking at the industrial structure of society have been profoundly altered.
Rather like an archaeological excavation, the exhibition uses as evidence the different strata or layers of meaning that must be taken into consideration when exploring the dynamics inherent in systems of capitalist production. It brings together a total of eighteen works by thirteen creators of different nationalities.
Among other matters, it speculates on what effects changes in production systems have on workers, on the relocation of Henry Ford’s model of assembly-line production to parts of the world new to capitalism, and on symbolic exchanges taking place in the contemporary industrial landscape, or transformations in the urban ecosystem and in the appearance itself of contemporary factories.
Curator: Alberto Sánchez Balmisa
Associate curator: Alejandra Labastida
Exhibition coproduced by the Centre d'Art La Panera, Lleida, and the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, in collaboration with the Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX) and the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación (AECID) del Gobierno de España.
Publicación
Publication
Una fábrica, una máquina, un cuerpo...
Authors : José Luis Barrios, Octavi Comeron, Antoni Jové, Glòria Picazo, Alberto Sánchez Balmisa
Language : Spanish, English, Catalan
Editor: MUAC-UNAM / Centre d’art la panera
Price: $450
