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22. Januar 2008 – 2. März 2008

Don't believe them

Curator : Valentín Roma

DON’T BELIEVE THEM/NO LES CREAS/NO ELS CREGUIS is a work that explores four distinct artistic perspectives on the hidden fissures behind certain ways of narrating the collective consciousness. As Zigmunt Bauman stated, we live in "liquid time", where uncertainty pervades all human action and every possible political model. However, in between these individual and collective accidents, history continues to unfold and at the same time perpetuates those static, consensual and exclusive tales, that, in some way, attempt to appease or contain all the knots that untie themselves before our eyes. In 1950 Marguerite Duras wrote a book entitled The Sea Wall, and today History seems to have turned into this: a ridiculous wall that unsuccessfully tries to hold up the virulent presence of the unique and the different, the variety of beliefs, the stories that tell and interpret the memory we create for ourselves.

Taking some verses from the poem Testamento (1986) by the Argentine-Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman as its point of departure, DON’T BELIEVE THEM/NO LES CREAS/NO ELS CREGUIS reviews the work of Marcel Dalmau, Isaías Griñolo, Andrea Nacach and Sitesize + Marcelo Porta, who offer us a compendium of motives, metaphors, documents and interpretations through which they invite us to contemplate some historic events from a "across the river" perspective — the opposite bank from which we were originally watching as an audience. All the works share a common central focus: the personal experience of the artists in the midst of the events they recount. In this way, their proposals are not interventions but direct and unfiltered testimonies. It is precisely from their position in the very depths of the story that the imperative and, up to a point, hard tone hinted at in the title comes to the surface. This is a project which tries to offer some material and testimonies that, paraphrasing György Lukács, "walk between moving sands".

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