The exhibition, which will remain open to visitors until 27 November, consists of the following artistic projects: dive into the mirrorof the Chris Bartual; unusual natureof the Paul Sandoval; Rabasa: Imaginary Map of a Useless Regionof the David Mocha; Sourceof the Ferdinand Bayonne; Y Critical research methodologies #2 visual contrasts and speculative realitiesof the Andrea Corrales.
During the residences, residents shared their creative and procedural experiences, making MUA a center for creation and research in contemporary art.
Projects
dive into the mirror
Cris Bartual works to transfer photography to a tactile and physical dimension to explore alternative ways of representing reality. The project presented in this residence is called “Immerse yourself in a mirror”, it offers us the opportunity to experience images, to discover new places by traveling in them. In the process of working, he conducts experiments using devices such as cameras or scanners, which he monitors the close areas of his environment, with the intention of producing new visual realities either from the technological malfunctions of the instruments he works with or from the findings of creativity. process. Photography was born 200 years ago as a means of representing reality, but photography today is capable of producing multiple realities. “Immerse yourself in a mirror” explores the importance of the technological apparatus when it comes to representing and saying things we cannot see, because everything we observe hides new languages. The title of the project expresses the unknown of the intangible, going through a mirror is like going through an image printed or projected on a screen, seeing what is behind it to find a new form of representation of what we already know.
unusual nature
the last heaven It’s part of the allure of the rare and wonderful, one of the cornerstones of the scientific enthusiasm fostered since the Renaissance and sparking collecting in men and women. But it also explores the construction of this concept from the natural sciences, documentaries, major discoveries, and how language expresses our perception of objects. This project aims to explore these channels of transmission through which all these stories are constructed, how myths are constructed from things we do not see or intuit, as well as the important role played by collections and their museographies in order to re-signify the image itself. when making their own history of things, true or not. The key factor in the formation of all these mythological images was the construction of fantastic creatures from elements we already know, as in the case of the chimera. Let us also recall the famous scientific examples of the great discoveries in which they were able to picture a giraffe, an exotic animal such as a long-necked dog, through memory alone; or where a stuffed crocodile is seen as a fearsome dragon hanging from the ceiling in churches. I propose a mural with different transmission channels that I work with using research and video, painting, drawing and even artificial intelligence.
Rabasa: Imaginary Map of a Useless Region
Rabasa, a harsh and decadent-looking remnant landscape located on the outskirts of Alicante city, coexisting in delicate balance with the city and operating at the margins of urban dynamics, is an unavoidable region of extreme drought. Rabasa is the opposite of being the utopian ideal landscape living in our cultural imaginary, but its distinctive features make it a zone of resistance to progress, antisocial desire to leave the world and escape from the present makes it a different place. an alternative place to live in the city, or rather to escape from it. Walking through these places forces us to step away from the widely accepted canons of beauty and discover that another aesthetic is possible in these landscapes. To live in these landscapes is to embrace the absence, the insecurity, the asceticism, the less at the expense of the less. It’s about positioning yourself on the other side, on the edge, to look from the outside. Exploring the urban environment is, in a sense, a return to slow time, or why not, its absence, a positioning against the flow of urban living styles, an escape from the virtual to the material. The sensory experience of the landscape provides us with another experience of the region and ourselves.
Source
photo series Source Investigates the importance of the hand in the evolution process of modern humans. It has a direct relationship not only at the anatomical level, but also conceptually, that is, with the emergence of “symbolic thought” in the evolution of the brain and, accordingly, with its artistic production. The project documents the spaces in which these first manifestations take place, the context that houses them, the materials and tools used, as well as the formal plastic result (paintings and engravings found on the walls of caves and rock shelters). In the first phase, the project focuses on 3 caves located in the province of Málaga (Cueva de Ardales, del Tesoro and Nerja), where dozens of paintings and engravings from more than 65,000 years have accumulated. None of them alter, replace or overlap another that has been made before, which elevates this space into a primitive museum visited by different generations of Neanderthals and later Sapiens. While the expert eyes of scientists are necessary to decipher what the gaze perceives, a kind of reverence and sensory experience for their ancestors; an activity formerly performed by the “shaman” of the tribe. The photographs in the series attempt to condense thousands of years of human evolution and knowledge into images. The rocky walls of flint, the same material from which the first lithic industries were developed (the cutting edge technology of the time), are also the basis of the microchips on which all new human technologies are based. based on. contemporary. Using the hand for drawing, for lithic industrial production or using the touch screen of our smartphones as a link.
Critical research methodologies #2 visual contrasts and speculative realities
Critical Methodologies #2 against visual affinities and speculative facts It is a project by Andrea Corrales Devesa linked to his doctoral research entitled “Images from below. Infrastructures, materials and institutional realities in the production of online pornography” (UPV) and explores an interdisciplinary and experimental path with possible representative universes. material context that does not exist for now. The proposal tentatively asks what the images created by these workers would have been if their material circumstances had been different. What is the relationship between the material world and the imaginary world in the creation of obscene images in digital environments? If we focus on the material reality of its employees, how are the material and symbolic dimensions woven into pornography? Based on 12 interviews with industry workers, the project orbits some recurring tensions in the highly feminine industry over creating explicit content on the network, taking into account the group’s specifics regarding data collection methods. care and representation based on tactical opacity and radical consent techniques”.