“Triggering imbalance” is an exhibition by Núria Güell which presents several projects in which the artist makes an exhaustive study on the apparatus of government in the public and private finance systems, identifies gaps which need filling and uses the symbolic and economic shelter of the art institution so as to develop proposals for creative activism which go beyond artistic activity and contribute to society.
 
The title given to the exhibition stands against the adjustment measures which the Spanish government imposes on society for the purpose of paying off the state’s public debt. The collapse of the financial system, which began in 2008 as the housing market bubble burst, caused the Spanish state to request an economic bailout from the European Union four years later: 100,000 million euros, to be invested entirely in recapitalizing certain debt-ridden banks. The launch of this bank rescue operation which implies using public resources and transforms private debt into public debt, has caused the general population to fall deeper and deeper into debt while basic rights are constantly being cut or privatized. Capitalism, according to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, “constitutes all humans as subjects, but some, the capitalists, are subjects of the statement, while others, the proletarians, are subjected to those who make the statement.” Núria Güell’s projects aim to reverse this situation and create places of enunciation from a community perspective and for the community at large, which offer resistance from a critical stance, to the logic imposed by cultural hegemony. The artist analyses the tools used by those in economics and law which allow them to impose power, and detects the blind spots in the existing legal system, in order to design complex plans for insubordination in order to reverse power relations and expose the current system, reveal and subvert it.
 

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Shots in the Middle of the Concert. From correct distance to proximity is a series of exhibitions centred on the work of six artists who set out to engender a critical vision of the reality around them, while reducing the distance between themselves and the issues they raise in their respective projects in order to declare themselves and in one way or another adopt a position by means of their involvement.


Daniela Ortiz
20.01-22.02.2015
 
Democracia
03.03-19.04.2015

Núria Güell
12.05-05-07.2015
 
Frederic Perers
14.07-13.09-2015

Cristina Lucas
22.09-08.11.2015
 
María Ruido
17.11.2015-10.01.2016

• Shots in the Middle of the Concert. From correct distance to proximity is a series of exhibitions curated by Cèlia del Diego.
• microRavals is a project of mediation in relation to associations, institutions, schools and local residents curated by Cristian Añó (Sinapsis).
• implic/Accions is a cycle of activities curated by Jordi Ribas.
• Organized by Arts Santa Mònica – Departament de Cultura.
• In conjunction with Levi Orta, Editorial Veusambveu, FLACC Workplace for Visual Artists, Fundació Tot Raval, Centre Cívic Drassanes, Associació per a Joves Teb, Derecho a Rebelión, Servei d'Informació de l'Objecció Fiscal, Procés Constituent, Catalunya Diu Prou, Tanquem els CIEs, Assemblea Social del Poblenou, Nova-Innovació Social i Grup Impulsor del Parlament Ciutadà.