Emergencies offers an extensive collective exhibition which gathers together some of the works from the MUSAC collection. Under this epilogue, the exhibit attempts to incite the spectator's reflection on the pressing issues that currently plague our society: from the destruction of the environment, to armed conflicts, pandemics, etc.
The exhibit, which will occupy the entire exhibition area in the new museum, will display works that reflect the different problems arising from and originating in the environment (Andreas Gursky, Allan Sekula, Superflex), different types of discrimination (Pilar Albarracín, Carmela García, Cristina García Rodero, Kirsten Geisler, Pierre Gonnord, Isaac Julien, Gilda Mantilla, Marina NÚñez, Julia Montilla, Tracey Moffatt, Yinka Shonibare, Trine Sondergaard, Joana Vascondelos) and inequality (Paul Graham, Ángel Marcos, Boris Mihailov, Zwelethu Mthethwa , Jorge Pineda); points in conflict (Luck Delahaye, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jorge Macchi, Multiplicity, Simeón Saiz, Pepo Salazar), spatial occupation (Alexander Apóstol, Sergio Belinchón, Olafur Eliasson, Francesco Jodice, Marjetica Potrc, Corina Schnitt), migratory movements (Rogelio López Cuenca, Valeriano López, El Perro), the alienation of the individual (Shoja Azari, Marc Bijl, Daniel Buetti, Rineke Dijkstra, Immo Klink, Áñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Toni Oursler, Sven Pahlsson, Fernando Sánchez Castillo), different cultural emergencies (Sandra Gamarra, Mujeres Creando, Anri Sala, Martín Sastre), new social structures (Eija Liisa Ahtila, Mira Bernabeu, Enrique Marty), and Africa, the name of the continent which in itself has become an "emergency". The work by Alfredo Jaar, Emergency, which the exhibition is based on, acts as a metaphor that comprises all of the previous works and one of the most important lines in the collection.
The objective of this exhibit is to increase the spectator's awareness of the urging realities that take place in the world. Thus, it actively considers open questions that may have been overlooked, immersed in a society of well-being where it is hard for one to distinguish between a media image that shows hunger in Africa and a perfume advertisement. At this point one loses sight of the thin line that separates what is supposedly the First and the Third World.
However, Emergencies is not only an exhibition. At this time, an initial book-catalogue will also be published that includes the images in the exhibition and basic general information as well as critical texts which offer an overall view of what is occurring around us, aware that not all of the "emergencies" on the planet are reflected here. As a result, one can come to understand not only a collection of contemporary art, but also the critical situations in the world, which are expressed by artistic creations. Apart from the documentary and research material, it will also include texts by the artists themselves that seek to propose solutions to the adversities surrounding us, as wells as utopian contributions to a better future. Later on, another book will be published that includes the record of all activities related to Emergencies conducted during the four months of the exhibition.
Emergencies, therefore, arises from a hopeful, utopian point of view, based on a radically committed and distinctive proposal for exhibiting a Collection. |
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