As an event prior to the opening of the exhibition Cristina de Middel. Apoteosis Now a conversation will take place between the artist and curator Iván de la Nuez, in the IVAM auditorium.
Apoteosis Now is a project from which the photographs of Cristina de Middel rush over the museum. Images loaded with facts, intuitions, mites, uncertainties, mutations, visions, totems and some taboo. An exposure in "cataract" mode, term that the artist uses to define the cascade of images to which this era subjects us and, at the same time, this eye disease that prevents us from seeing them clearly.
Each series, here, it behaves like a little treat of iconography, a visual novel, a seismograph about the manipulation of the real. And each work can be read as an archive of dreams or as a record of the obstacles that prevent their realization.
If the Apocalypse takes us, inevitably, to the abyss, the Apotheosis includes ways to avoid it in this age ruled by iconocracy. A time in which Cristina de Middel warns us that the avalanche of photographs offered to us is as dangerous as those that are usurped from us. From this conviction, Apoteosis Now it conveys to us that images can not only serve to subjugate us, but also to offer us instruments capable of liberating us: to us and to our gaze.
- 19h. Presentation of the exhibition Cristina de Middel. Apoteosis Now, a conversation between the artist and his curator Iván de la Nuez, in the IVAM auditorium. Free entry until full capacity.
- 20h. Opening and cocktail. Free entry until full capacity.
