Habitar las sombras [Inhabiting the Shadows] delves into what lingers in shadow, where light and shade encapsulate notions tied to both individual and collective memory. In the hundred or so works that make up the exhibition, black-and-white composition stands as the sole protagonist. The curatorial discourse weaves together the collections of IVAM and MACA, not as a contrived stylistic device but in response to a deeper impulse: memory folding back on itself, resisting containment within the perfect metaphor of greyscale imaginaries.
The gallery unfolds into spaces that blur between phantasmagorical presences, the complexities of the psyche, domestic spheres, traces of the human and absent architectures. The exhibition draws us into different atmospheres that allow entry into corners and veils, placing us between the intimate and the social, between lived and fictional experience, where both what we project and what remains to be imagined become significant. In this way, a visual framework takes shape in which the poetics of black and white traverse the shadows to interrogate silences, suggestions, traces and spectres.
Artists
Eugenio Ampudia, J. Tobias Anderson, Rosana Antolí, Richard Artschwager, Lutz Bacher, José Manuel Ballester, Burt Barr, Gabriele Basilico, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Pablo Bellot, Joseph Beuys, Tony Bevan, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Bradford, Berta Cáccamo, Carmen Calvo, Pepe Calvo, Joan Cardells, Teresa Cebrián, William Cordova, John Davies, Liz Deschenes, Olga Diego, Paz Errázuriz, Joan Fontcuberta, Alberto Fournier, Alex Francés, Katharina Fritsch, Nuria Fuster, Cristina García Rodero, Gilbert & George, Susy Gómez, Roberta González, Douglas Gordon, Susana Guerrero, Rula Halawani, Arturo Herrera, Cristina Iglesias, Graciela Iturbide, William Klein & Jerome Charyn, John Lindell, Markus Lüpertz, Lucebert, Chema Madoz, Anna Malagrida, Ángeles Marco, Steve Morrison, Blanca Muñoz, Óscar Muñoz, Zoran Music, Natividad Navalón, Miquel Navarro, Morgan O’Hara, Isabel Oliver, Aitor Ortiz, Ana Peters, Otto Piene, Esther Pizarro, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Jorge Ribalta, Àngels Ribé, Humberto Rivas, Kay Rosen, Thomas Ruff, Matt Saunders, Cindy Sherman, Erin Shirreff, Amy Sillman, Susana Solano, Thomas Struth Hiroshi Sugimoto, Anna Talens, Liliane Tomasko, Ann Toebbe, Amparo Tormo, Eulàlia Valldosera, Darío Villalba, Hannsjörg Voth & Ingrid Amslinger, James Welling Rachel Whiteread, Santiago Ydáñez.
