OVNI ARCHIVE. This installation opens archiving-archive exhibition
Rosell Meseguer
1 October 8 pm
Ovni Archive is an installation by Rosell Meseguer developing a metaphorical dialogue on espionage between two periods: a past that coincides with the history of espionage carried out during the Cold War and our present. The project is part of a body of work generated by the artist based on research that has previously led her to explore the locations of military forts and bunkers as defensive sites or shelters, extraordinary forms of military power that lead us into the sophisticated world of espionage, its inventions, revolutions and conflicts, which serve the artist to open tunnels in time to connect current and past events. The term Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) is used here as a metaphor for the impossibility of decoding or publically understanding documents forming a nation’s security-privacy. The project shows documents, photographs of peculiar objects and other archives linked to the world of espionage, taking into account that it is impossible for them to be completely legible, given that they hide an essential part of the information. For Rosell Meseguer, to operate inside the archive and with its representations is an attempt to negotiate with reality and de-territorialize power.
archivo-archivante (archiving-archive) presents three installations
related to a poetic use of the archive visualized by four creators and
their three proposals, through which we are positioned inside the space
and logic of the archive. The exhibition aims to point out the role one
takes interpreting an archive as a meaningful, active figure in its
construction. Archives are places that mark the beginning of that
action and in which humans should have a way of making reference to
themselves.
Schedule archiving-archive
(modes of engaging)
1 October Ovni Archive Rosell Meseguer
18 November Satellite Contact Uriel Orlow & Ruth Maclennan
14 December User Group Disco Elizabeth Price
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