Places categories: IVAM Centre Julio González

We continue the series of conversations between artists whose aim is to connect works and projects that are similar in some way –or which present differences- with the intention of laying key concepts on the table, which will allow people to understand the contemporary artistic practice. Our intention is to be able to create a dialogue, to rethink, to imagine or to compare ideas, so that these, and their specification in several art forms, become again a consubstantial element of the debate on culture and contemporary art.

Also, so that the artists themselves can present them.

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In the field of photography, the pictures that best illustrate the social sequels of the Great Depression after the stock market crash of 1929 are the ones taken by the American photographers Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Jack Delano, Marion Post, Gordon Parks and Russell Lee, who took part in the programme of the Farm Security Administration (FSA, 1935–1944). Set up by the government to provide graphic documentation of the agricultural reform programme promoted by the New Deal, the project gave rise to the greatest choral account of the desolation and poverty of the rural population and their emancipation in those years.

Through a careful selection of photographs, magazines, books and documentaries, the exhibition reviews the historical context of the work of the FSA photographers, and pictures by some of the greatest exponents of social photography in America, such as Lewis Hine, Paul Strand and Ralph Steiner, who are represented in the IVAM Collection.

Converstions continue with artists to relate works and projects which resemble each other, or differences- posed with the intention to put on the table key concepts to help understand contemporary art practice. The intention is to discuss, rethink, imagine or contrasting ideas. For these, and their implementation in various art forms, again become inseparable element of the debate on contemporary art and culture. And so are the artists who expose them, this time with a critique of art.

Angela Garcia, Professor of the Department of Architectural Graphic Expression at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Isabel Oliver, Doctor of Fine Arts and Professor of University.

Both participate in the exhibition The Hey Exhibition: The world goes Pop that is currently showing at the Tate Modern in London, as representatives of the Spanish Pop Art 70s.

Isabel Tejeda, PhD from the UPV. She was director of the Center Eusebio Sempere (Alicante) and the VA space and room Veronicas (Murcia). She teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts UMU. He was co-director of the Master in Management of Historic and Cultural Heritage of the UCM to 2012. Curator.

Artificial Breathing. Performance. Dark Echo is the triple title of the specific project proposed for the IVAM by Dora García in collaboration with Peio Aguirre. It is the result of a long conversation between Aguirre and García which began in 2009, about the nature of performance and acting, of doubles, multiple personalities, daemons, phantoms and voices and of representation, and about the transmission of knowledge and experience.

Artificial Breathing will be a performance presented in collaboration with students of UPV’s Faculty of Fine Arts. Working from a text created in a workshop on collective experience of drifting in the city of Valencia, they will construct the script of the performance that will take place at the IVAM during the days of the exhibition.

Performance is a collaboration between Dora García and Peio Aguirre, a script in which there are various characters. It can be understood as a permanent experiment and as a play that takes place in real time. It is presented on a table with as many copies as there are characters in the text; periodically, a series of actors activate the text.

And Dark Echo (Eco Oscuro) is a novel by Francisco Baena, written in 2015 and not yet published, which reflects on the possibility of the modification of reality by fiction and which is also a study of various works by Dora García.

Francisco Baena (Madrid, 1967) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Granada and completed a doctorate in Philosophy and Letters by the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has participated in workshops of contemporary art with Jose Guerrero, Marcelo Exposito Antonio Murado, Marina Núñez and Carmen Navarrete. Wors at José Guerrero Art center of Granada.