The offer is equipped with: 5.200 € chosen between wages and job production for development. a dozen projects Submitted to this initiative of Residencias A Quemarropa from all over the national territory. increase reflections of contemporary artboth in public and among artists themselves to combat the climate crisis and contribute to a more sustainable society.
The project will see the light from now on At an exhibition on October 27 It will be installed in room 0 of Las Cigarreras and its works HeHe CollectiveFounded by Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen based in Le Havre (France), Madrid based visual artist and filmmaker Elena LavellesArtist and performer born in South Africa and living in Europe Jabulani Maseko and creative and investigative Joana MollIt works between Berlin and Barcelona.
Leading the curation project, Manuel Prados (Seville, 1981)Directing his practice to artistic research and contextual art, Dr. In recent years, he has been interested in the origin of natural and artificial elements in works of art and the socioeconomic consequences of obtaining these materials.
exhibition project No return, dynamics of lost energy part of the situation Climate change is a multifactorial problem. This complexity of factors make visible through the work of the samplea heterogeneous selection of forms and formats, with different approaches to a common problem.
No returns implying irreversibility from some changes human action why is this happening natural environment. The project suggests that alarms such as deforestation in the Amazon, loss of Arctic ice, or loss of coral reefs are interconnected, so that when one of them is reached, a chain reaction is likely to occur that will affect the rest. .
From interactive works to tables
From Residencias A Quemarropa – integrated Juan Fuster, Miriam Martínez Guirao and Ana Pastorwith what Carolina Fuentes de Las Cigarreras formed the selection jury – justifying the choice of the Prados’ curator as “the person closest to the call proposal” and The quality of the works to be exhibited » At the exhibition on October 27 interactive works, installation, painting and video.
The group underlines the quality of the other participants, which it sees as “miracle” because of the rush in the application period “for such a special call and including the general elections and summer holidays”. Although the proposal reflects climate change, it also touches on climate change. carbon footprint aspects produced by art and the commitment of artists to art Sustainability.
Artists
HE HeHe Collective social, industrial and ecological in today’s technological environment. His cross-disciplinary work explores the relationship between art, media and the environment.
study Elena Lavelles Policies focused on the expansion of capitalism extraction of natural resources and transnational exploitation as well as social resistance movements.
Joana Moll It critically explores how machines in the post-apocalyptic narrative affect human literacy. ecosystems during Jabulani Maseko It details its performative processes in relation to itself. corporeality.
About Point Blank
Here’s how one Quemarropa approaches projects: experimentalTo be permeable to the changes and needs of the cultural and creative life in and around the city. In 2014, Kolektif established the first artist residence in the Valencian Community with a creative, not production-based, residence profile. artistic research lab Created by the residents themselves. His field of work is to present new visions of art to the community, in this case the city of Alicante, and make them visible to the general public. They are also the creators of the Piedra, Papel Tijera ALC project, which was later transformed into the OpenArt festival.