Films, installations, photographs and videos produced by Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains.Since it opened in 1997, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, has been taking in 24 students from around the world every year.
Curator: Montse BadiaIn these increasingly standardised times in which the mass media holds sway, our individual space of action and definition is becoming more and more limited and subject to strict codes.
Objects in the rear view mirror are closer than they appearCurator: Montse BadiaOne of the principal features of present-day artistic proposals is that they raise more questions than they answer when it comes to the mechanisms needed to make us change, or at least question, our perception of things, our perception of the world in which we live and our perception of our own selves.
A project by Grazia Quaroni and David RenaudLast season the cycle in the Espai 13 was presented in the traditional manner, i.e. with one individual exhibition following another.
Curator: Grazia Quaroni"Every game is a system of rules.What gives meaning to the rules is the desire to play."Roger Caillois, Les jeux et les hommes, 1958Art and play are both a necessity.
2000-2001 Season25th Anniversary CycleCurators: Mònica Regàs, Ferran Barenblit and Frederic MontornésThe joint curatorship by these three art critics is partly a consequence of the history of the Espai 13.
1999-2000 SeasonCurator: Michy Marxuach.Michy@microaccess.netAn Oasis in the Blue Desert is a metaphor for the reality of Puerto Rico as seen from the country itself by six of its young artists, who have been invited to reflect on the subject of transit and cultural exchange.
1998-1999 SeasonCurators: Jorge Luis Marzo, Rosa Sánchez i Tere BadiaSingular Electrics, a play on the name "General Electrics", is concerned with some of the new international art forms that have grown out of the latest communications and imaging technologies.
1997-1998 SeasonCurator:Ferran Barenblit, barenblit@redestb.esThroughout the 1997-1998 cycle, Invisible Circles has analysed the landscape — both physical and social — that makes up our environment, that invisible line that we draw around us to separate us from the outside world.
