April – May 2015
by Sonia Fernández Pan (Salamina)

Route GRAF

It occurs to me that the spectator is a type of curator, not so much on the side of production but more on the side of reception. In a more or less unconscious way we could trace a conceptual line in our role as spectators, even though this implies the mistake of reducing the curatorial activity to the simple election of some things over others probably under thematic parameters. It is then when it occurs to me the total opposite; that is when we adopt our position as spectators who can squeeze promiscuity to the maximum. A promiscuity in which we can include both the partial randomness of our taste and the fact of staying at home due to an overdose of indecision in choosing what to see, what to listen to, where to go or when to relate to art in a city in which many events happen continuously. Events that overlap with other events. Sometimes related to the art world, sometimes related to other vital/existential forces.

When thinking about a route it is almost impossible to avoid the geographical component, a component that we can swap with other parameters that manage to join all the spots in the trail. A route around places of a similar enunciation. A route includes an itinerary, a direction and a specific purpose. When none of these elements exist, another type of route could be made. A route based on desire. And desire includes both its achievement and its failure or cancellation. It is from here that we could trace this route bearing in mind different situations:

-Those exhibitions or activities that one wants and is able to see because they still have a place or they are yet to come.

-Those that are not possible to visit anymore because they have disappeared due to the perishable condition of what exists only once in time and space.

-Those that finally get to escape the previous groups in order to move into the satisfactory group of things realised, and not yet to be done.

Since the intentions of our desire are often bigger than their actual accomplishment, it is easy to deduce that the two first groups beat the third one in terms of size. However, instead of arranging the spots of a promiscuous itinerary inside each one of these categories, I prefer to enumerate them in a list that carries forward: Todo está muy caro, Prophetia, Castillos y bodegones, Paisajes Revoltosos, To be precise, 275’59 m2, Meaninful Gestures: Noah Angel in Barcelona, DJ Workshop for Women, La bestia y el soberano, Jerome Bell-The show must go on, Sophie Calle Modus Vivendi, Formas de lo cotidiano…

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Text by Sonia Fernández Pan (Salamina) for GRAF

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April – May 2015 by Sonia Fernández Pan (Salamina)

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April – May 2015
by Sonia Fernández Pan (Salamina)