- Exhibition program
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- Artist
- Josu Bilbao
- Dates
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- Place
- Espai 13
- Curated by
- Carolina Jiménez
Josu Bilbao's exhibition proposal examines the possibility of opening Espai 13 to the outside through a limited intervention in terms of dimensions, space and time that is centred on the ventilation shafts originally designed by the building's architect, Josep Lluís Sert. Bilbao's aim with this is to reconnect the place with a more contemporary and open artistic sensibility in which the space becomes an essential part of the work.
Adopting a stance of continuous questioning, Bilbao invites us to look and hear in another way and to rethink how we make and display art. He reminds us that creating can become an act of resistance and freedom in a system that tends to simplify and control the meaning of things.
The work has been developed in collaboration with the architectural studio GOIG (Pol Esteve Castelló and Miquel Mariné Núñez).
Josu Bilbao (Bermeo, 1978) takes language and the orality that survives in some endangered languages as her starting point, moving on from there to expand and soar towards sculpture as a material and sensitive practice that produces physical and sensory spatiality. The observation of both states, as preludes to formalisation and accord, as prelinguistic potentialities of forms to come, feeds a continual practice that is set out in the exhibition in the manner of ephemeral acts or ecosystems sustained by the care of and attentive listening to the processes inherent in them.
Bilbao has shown work in numerous galleries and museums, among them Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao), the MNCARS (Madrid), Flex (Bilbao), Iturribide Etxea (Ibarrangelu), etHALL (Barcelona), the Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Madrid), Halfhouse (Barcelona), CarrerasMugica (Bilbao), Tabakalera (San Sebastián), the Centro Párraga (Murcia), the Centro Botín (Santander), CentroCentro (Madrid) and the Museo de Bellas Artes (Bilbao), institutions with which she has also collaborated.
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