ángel peligrosamente búho [duelos, espectros y materialidad]
MANUEL ALBA MONTES, PAULA GARCÍA-MASEDO, DUNCAN GIBBS, VIOLETA MAYORAL, ÁNGELA MILLANO, LETICIA SKRYCKY (exhibition), JOSE BEGEGA, MARTA ECHAVES, ARIADNA PARREU, SABINA URRACA (publication), ÁLVARO CHIOR (communication) and AINHOA HERNÁNDEZ (performance)
CURATED BY NÚRIA GÓMEZ GABRIEL
We need spectral experience and its material vicissitudes for an ethics of disorientation. As a metaphor for spaces escaping our perception and our understanding, spectrality relates to a web of invisible worlds stalking the limits of our physical body and our perceptual system. In ángel peligrosamente búho, the artists offer spectral materiality as an ethics of disorientation. A sensibility seeking to give present time a collective rather than productive dimension, repetitive rather than linear, reflexive rather than progressive.
Núria Gómez Gabriel (Barcelona, 1987) holds a PhD in Communication awarded by Pompeu Fabra University for her thesis Espectropolíticas. Imagen y Hauntología en les prácticas artísticas contemporáneas (2020). She teaches on the University Master’s Degree in Visual Cultures at ESCAC (Terrassa) and on the BA in Art and Design at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has worked as a cultural researcher and curator for institutions such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Fabra i Coats (Barcelona), Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona), TABAKALERA (San Sebastián), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid), La Casa Encendida (Madrid) Hangar (Barcelona) and Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani (Girona).
