- Dates
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- Curated by
- Vicenç Altaió, Lena Balaguer, Maria-Josep Balsach
CASINO is an initiative born from existing affinities, contacts and preferences between Barcelona, Perpignan and Montpellier, specifically between Èczema, Symptômes and Med-a-Mothi.
CASINO aspires to be an artistic transmigration project, with the potential to expand in the future to other geographical locations.
Its objectives are to open doors to the outside world, initiate the journey of the Axe Sud and bring together works that, despite their geographical proximity, display substantial differences.
To highlight the distinctive and distant qualities perceived in each other’s work, each location selects the artists it wishes to showcase from the other two cities.
Perpignan and Montpellier each present works from the other two cities, while Barcelona serves as the meeting point and confrontation space for all the selected works, providing, in a sense, the opportunity to establish affinities and similarities between the different hubs.
CASINO is, without a doubt, a complicated love story.
Intoxications, filters, charms, rigged tarot cards, ambiguous visions, old horoscopes… How many obstacles lie along the luminous path of our budding loves!
Yet, all the languages of the world agree: good is the lesser evil. In the end, we will love you by thinking of ourselves, love you by thinking of you, beneath the shadow of plastic palm trees, to the grating strains of an Antonio Machín song.
Our thanks to the Virgin of Montserrat, the Caula waterfall, the Alaric mountain, the Trans Europ Express, Tío Pepe, the Deux-Mers, La Languedocienne, La Catalane and the A-17 motorways, and Maguelonne.
