[Exposició] Abans que desaparegui
Hall of the Academy Square
from February 4 to March 2
Opening: February 4 at 6:30 p.m
In an accelerated, precarious and often uprooted present, the impulse to “retain” can seem like a gesture of control: to fix what is running away, to secure what is falling apart, to immobilize what is changing.
However, the exhibition starts from another intuition, withholding can also be a form of care. This is hosting unencoded, versus the capture machineof which Deleuze and Guattari speak, a system that appropriates flows (of desire, of affections, of information and of labor power) so that they become useful in an extractive system.
Thus, against this logic, the narratives unfold as a practice of paying attention to what crosses us and shapes us, a root, a link, an emotion, a texture, an image; before it fades or mutates.
Here, memory is not understood as a closed archive or as a showcase that preserves intact what was, but as a living process: a time that is updated and rewritten every time we invoke it.
To remember is to negotiate again with the loss; sustaining a presence that is no longer full, but which also does not completely disappear. This tension between permanence and transformation, between presence and absence, between the urge to preserve and the need to let go, is the driving force behind the assembled works. They could be different responses to the same unknown, tests of resistance to the wear and tear of time.
“It matters what thoughts others generate.
It matters which knowledge produces knowledge.
It matters which relationships weave relationships.
It matters which worlds are configured as a world.
It matters which stories make stories.”
D. Haraway.
