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INTERMEDIA. WRITING THE IMAGE, CREATING THE WORD / Various artists
8 SEP - 23 OCT.

Name: INTERMEDIA. WRITING THE IMAGE, CREATING THE WORD / Various artists 8 SEP - 23 OCT.
Start: 2022-09-08T20:00
End: 2022-09-08T21:00
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SEP 8 - OCT 23
Tower Hall

Visual artists: Joan Colom, José Noguero, Juan Uslé, Enrica Bernardelli, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Vicente de Mello, David Moreno and Mariana Castillo Deball.
Writers: Carlos Bassas, Laura Arnedo and Valeria List.
Curators: Laura Aizcorbe, Maite Fraile, Victor Acebrón and Dayneris Brito, graduates of the III promotion of the Master in Curatorial Studies.

What is the relationship between the visual image and the written word? Is the image a type of narrative? Is it possible to look at the text as one looks at a visual work? How do photography and the written word interact? Do they collaborate, fight each other, question each other?

Intermedia, which is based on the works donated by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros to the Museum in 2018 and their dialogue with the rest of the pieces that make up the MUN Collection, is the result of the practical work and knowledge acquired during the postgraduate training of the young curators whose Master's Thesis was chosen from among the different proposals presented in this 3rd promotion.

This proposal takes as a reference some of the photographs that Joan Colom took in the Raval of Barcelona and that were the germ of the book Izas, rabizas y colipoterras by Camilo José Cela. Following this model, the photographs of José Noguero, Juan Uslé, Enrica Bernardelli, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Vicente de Mello, David Moreno and Mariana Castillo Deball have been a source of inspiration for writers Carlos Bassas, Laura Arnedo and Valeria List and vice versa. Poems by Arnedo and List have given rise to new works by Pérez Bravo, de Mello and Noguero.

The result is not a photographic exhibition accompanied by literary works but an exhibition in which both disciplines have equal prominence. Given that the texts exhibited are born from the selected photographs and vice versa, works that are born as a result of the text, Intermedia underlines what the word and the image have in common. It reminds and emphasizes that reading is a visual act by exposing the text as a visual object and playing with the direction of reading, typography, shape, size and arrangement of words. In turn, it shows that the visual reception of photography is experienced through language. As Didi Huberman stated "The big mistake is to think that you only look with your eyes. You look with your whole body and, secondly, with language".

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Laura Arnedo
With a degree in Hispanic Philology and Audiovisual Communication from the University of Salamanca, Arnedo (Calahorra, La Rioja, 1982) has published the poetry collections Elogio de la Sed ( Ediciones Eunate, 2014) and Historia de los niños luciérnaga (Editorial Playa de Ákaba, 2017). He has won literary awards and mentions such as the First Prize for literary genres in the 2012 Encuentros de Arte Joven of the Government of Navarra.

Carlos Bassas
Carlos Bassas del Rey (Barcelona, 1974) works as a fortune teller, a job he combines with teaching and screenwriting. In 2007 he won the Plácido Award for Best Noir Screenplay at the IX International Film Noir Festival of Manresa. In 2012 he published his first novel, Aki y el misterio de los cerezos, and won the Premio Internacional de Novela Negra Ciudad de Carmona with El honor es una mortaja. Since then, his literary production has not ceased: Siempre pagan los mismos ( 2015), winner of the Tormo Negro; Justo, winner of the prestigious Hammett Prize (2019) awarded by the Semana Negra de Gijón; Soledad ( 2019), Cielos de plomo ( 2021), and Sinántropos (2022) which, so far, is his latest novel. As a screenwriter, his work stands out in the film Un día más con vida, a production that has won numerous awards, including a Goya and the Best Animated Film Award at the XXXI edition of the European Film Awards.

Enrica Bernardelli
Born in Italy in 1959, she lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. She is an artist who works on the alteration of the concept of time, reproducibility and the materiality and immateriality of things. She integrates mobility in photography as a way of questioning the limits of temporality. She has participated in the Sao Paulo Biennial, the Mercosur Biennial and several national and international exhibitions.

Mariana Castillo Deball
In her work, Castillo Deball (Mexico City, 1975) proposes a kaleidoscopic vision that explores the way in which the collaboration between science, archaeology and visual arts can describe the world. His installations, performance, sculptures and editorial projects emerge from the re-combination of diverse languages and explore the role of objects in the understanding of our history and identity. She received a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1997 and in 2003 she completed a postgraduate program at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Holland. He has received the following awards: Prix de Rome (2004); Zurich Art Prize (2012); Henry Moore Institute Fellowship (2012) and Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst (2013). He currently lives and works in Berlin.

Camilo José Cela
Camilo José Cela (Galicia, 1916 - Madrid, 2002), prolific Spanish writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel de Cervantes Prize and Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, among others. Since his first novel, La Familia de Pascual Duarte, which marked a milestone in post-war Spanish narrative, his production has been extensive and uninterrupted.

Joan Colom
Awarded the National Photography Prize and the Gold Medal for Cultural Merit by the Barcelona City Council, Colom (Barcelona, 1921-2017) belonged to the first post-war photographic generation. He portrays the fleeting, an uncompromising realism that he finds in the street.

Vicente de Mello
Artist and curator born in Brazil (1967), lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Graduated in Social Communication and Art History and Architecture, from 1989 to 1998, he works in the Photography Department of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro. Since 1992, he has been developing his photographic research through different series. He has participated in exhibitions in his native country and in other countries such as Belgium and France.

Valeria List
Born in the Mexican city of Puebla in 1990. She writes and translates poetry. Her first book, La vida abierta, received the Premio de Poesía Joven de la UNAM in 2019. In 2021 she published La plaquette Calgary in Sombrario Ediciones and Adie in the digital poetry publishing house Matrerita. She has a degree in Hispanic Letters and a master's degree in Spanish Letters from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She works in the Publications department of the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas of this academic center. In 2019 she was awarded a scholarship by Elipsis, a writing program of the British Council, and by the T.S. Eliot Summer School at the University of London. She currently enjoys a poetry fellowship in the Jóvenes Creadores program of the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de México.

David Moreno
Moreno (United States, 1957) lives and works in New York. His work is multidisciplinary, playing in different artistic fields such as drawing, photography, sound works or video creations. His participation in both group and solo exhibitions is very extensive. In 2008 he was awarded the American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.

José Noguero
Born in Basbastro (Huesca) in 1969, Noguero is one of the most brilliant artists of his generation. His study and research of the limits of sculpture have led him to explore other means of expression, such as photography, painting and video art. Since 1999, he has lived and worked in Berlin. Throughout his career, the artist has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Spain and abroad.

Marta María Pérez Bravo
The work of Marta María Pérez Bravo (Havana, 1959) explores black and white photography based on dreams and mythologies, approaching Cuban popular cults and religious practices and symbols that surround her. He studied painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1979 and at the Higher Institute of Art in 1984. Since 1995 he has lived and worked in Mexico. His work has had an international presence, both in biennials and in collections and exhibitions in museums such as the MoMA (USA), the Reina Sofia Museum (Spain), the Palace of Fine Arts of Mexico (Mexico) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA), among others.

Juan Uslé
Uslé (Cantabria, 1973) began his studies of Fine Arts at the Escuela Superior de San Carlos in Valencia. During this stage he alternates his passion for painting with photography, understanding the latter as something open, experimental and subjective. When he returned to Santander, he focused more definitively on painting. In 1986 he took up residence in New York. He is recognized as one of the most important artists of his generation and a pictorial reference on the international scene. In 2002 he received the National Prize for the Plastic Arts. He has participated in Documenta 9 in Kassel, the 51st Venice Biennale and in solo exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum in Bonn, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the MACBA in Barcelona and the IVAM in Valencia.

With the support of Fundación Pablo Palazuelo