Holey

Exhibition

14.06.2023 - 25.09.2023

Holey begins in the form of a question: How do we relate to the contemporary image? To the image that consists of many images circulating non-stop all the time, leaving us electrified and exhausted? What will happen when technical images finally eat up the world? Why keep doing exhibitions? Shouldn't we rather conjure up a blackout?

Focusing on the gaze and the possibles of the imagination, this exhibition is conceived, more than ever, as a bodily experience, in which the works of the artists are intermingled with the architecture of the building and the exhibition elements, in a continuum that invites us to spend a while, wandering, moving away from anxiety and capture, reconciling ourselves with the alchemy of vision. If writing fixes the volatility of language, we would like to make the image orality and not writing. That is to say, we would like to make the image not only a technique but something that overflows, becoming feral, bordering on onomatopoeia. We would like to stay among the holes that are the possibility of every image.

The fact that the temporal dimension of the exhibition is just as important as the spatial dimension invites Holey to be visited on different occasions. In a game of fade in and fade out, appearances and disappearances, the sonic image and the perceptive possibilities of sound will gradually occupy the Santa Mònica, evidencing a fundamental desire of the project: the image is interwoven with many languages and subjects. The image is time, the image is stone, the image is seams, the image is machine, the image is skin, the image is violence, the image is secret codes, the image is ritual, the image is light, the image is obstacle, the image is popular, the image is desire... The image speaks in a language that escapes us, but at the same time we marvel at everything that goes too far, and that's where it stays, and plays.

In Holey, national artists with newly produced projects coexist with international artists with work already produced. The work methodology proposed by Santa Mònica enables artists, curators and collaborators to meet in a porous process, collectively shaping the project, over long periods that have enabled us to gradually discover how to tell our concerns and desires around the radicalism of some images that do disarticulate and counter-conjure the automated and saturated gaze. The exhibition is also a series of conversations, and two series of activities, which interrupt, divert, and accumulate experiences and questions about those images, which, like disturbing flashes of light, interrupt our world to remind us that there are still possibles.

We are in what we could call a period of interregnum, on the threshold between a past and a future in which the image will cease to be what it was, and what it is, but we do not know what it will be either. Let's go into the holes without forgetting that we have eyelids.

Artists and exhibited work:

Alejandra Riera: Le cinéma. De l'intérieur, instants précédant les images du 19 mars 1895
Alex Palacín: Tot el que no tinc
Alexandre Chanoine / Cámara-madera-piedra
Anna Daučíková: Along the Axis of Affinity II., 2015-2019
Arthur Jafa: APEX
Arxiu Mas: Postcards of the Tragic Week
Beatriz Olabarrieta: Be careful, you are the staircase, can’t replicate
Ester Fleckner: Woodbeds, brimming
Eulàlia Rovira: Objecte de desviació / Manipular una branca
Fernando Gandasegui: Rompimiento embocadura
Francesc Ruiz with Aimarito Gato Grande, Belén Soto, Beltzito, Eskilu, Fernanda, Johan, Marc Gascón, Nacho Perra, Paquita, Roma, Synchro: Projecte còmic porno amateur
Hans Eijkelboom: Photo Notes
Laure Prouvost: It, Heat, Hit
Max Milà: Perseguint la llum
Museu Diocesà de Barcelona: Bust of Sanit Florinda / Liturgic ensemble
Paula Pérez-Roda: Variaciones para voz / Conversaciones sumisas
Rita Sala: Saltito / Objeto-Saltito
Rubén Grilo: Relieves
s2k2ky: Ressò
Sociedad 0: Benches / Footbridge
Sofía Montenegro: Llenar un vacío
Taller Sarandaca: Capgrossos

Exhibition’s activities and activations:

14.06 / 19:00 h: Holey exhibition opening

Activar los poderes de otro cuerpo I / Cycle curated by Garbiñe Ortega in collaboration with students from Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (Paul Bonnarme, Pol Crosas, Lucía Dellacha, Sara Domínguez López, Alejo Duclós, Lorena García and Deva Pereda):
10.06 / 19:00 h: Screening of Parsi, by Eduardo Williams, and conversation with the filmmaker
10-11.06 / 11:00 h, 12:30 h, 16:00 h, 17:30 h, 19:00 h: Masajes de la visión / Idoia Zabaleta and Leticia Morales

21.06 / 18:30h: Iconofàgia: l’era de les fotografies voraces / Joan Fontcuberta

27.06, 05.07, 13.07, 07.09 / 16:00 h: Rompimiento embocadura (Curtains restoration) / Fernando Gandasegui with Marta and Núria Castells and Helena Salvador

12.07 / 18:30 h: Imagen escena / Andrea Soto Calderón and Adnen Jdey

13.07 / 19h: Listening session of Llenar un vacío / Sofía Montenegro

15.07 / 11:00 h: Rompimiento embocadura (Háptica teatral) / Fernando Gandasegui with Magdalena Garzón

07.09 / 19h: Listening session of Llenar un vacío / Sofía Montenegro

13.09 / 18:30 h: No imatge / David Bestué and Marta Azparren

Activar los poderes de otro cuerpo II / Cycle curated by Garbiñe Ortega in collaboration with students from Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
16.09 / 11:00 h: The World Wide Tuning Meditation, by author Pauline Oliveros, session conducted by Ximena Alarcón
16.09 / 11:30 h: Audiovisual and sound works session
16.09 / 13:00 h: Performative lecture by Rabih Mroué

Oïdes sense parpelles / Cicle of concerts curated by Joan Canyelles:
20.09 / 20:00 h: Uriel Barthélémi + Okkre
21.09 / 19:00 h: Atrice

22.09 / 19:00 h: Stone- Rope - Skin / Alexandre Chanoine

Sundays at 12h: Guided tours to the exhibition

Artists:
Alejandra Riera
Alex Palacín
Alexandre Chanoine
Anna Daučíková
Arthur Jafa
Arxiu Mas
Beatriz Olabarrieta
Ester Fleckner
Eulàlia Rovira
Fernando Gandasegui
Francesc Ruiz + Projecte Còmic Porno Amateur
Hans Eijkelboom
Laure Prouvost
Max Milà
Museu Diocesà de Barcelona
Paula Pérez-Roda
Rita Sala
Rubén Grilo
s2k2ky
Sofía Montenegro
Taller Sarandaca