ROAMING STRATEGY OF PRECARIOUSNESS
Exhibition by FRANCESC ABAD
STRATEGY OF PRECARIOUSNESS
ROAMING OF THE EXHIBITION
VILAFRANCA DEL PENEDÈS
23.10.2015 - 22.11.2015
SALA TRINITARIS
Culture Service, Ajuntament de Vilafranca del Penedès
Opening, Friday 23th of October at 8 pm
The concept of time generates its own images: orange peel, cake, a snail's shell, palo santo, the factory floor… which suggest to us labyrinthine complexities, the cumulative density of layers and the superposition of the palimpsest. Francesc Abad's work is mostly structured around a reflection upon time from the absolute present (territory, ideologies, conflict), in order to project towards the past conceived as a construction of history and memory (W. Benjamin), and towards a future which must be considered and formulated under the shadow of utopia (E. Bloch).
This discourse confronts a dual contingency, that which is imposed by the pace of time and that which is generated by the dominant powers (capital, ideologies). Thus, a strategy of precariousness, along the lines of a samizdat, must be developed, from which resistance and confrontation may become possible. Strategy of Precariousness is also present as an epilogue which gathers together Francesc Abad's recent works, and as an archive integrated by the diversity of the fragments which shape personal and collective experience.
Project curated by Miquel Bardagil and Magdala Perpinyà.
Strategy of Precariousness by Francesc Abad is an exhibition produced by ACVic Centre d'Arts Contemporànies, forming part of the Touring Exhibitions Programme of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya, in collaboration with Ajuntament de Vilafranca del Penedès.
SALA DELS TRINITARIS
C/ de la Font, 43. Vilafranca del Penedès
From Wednesday to Friday, from 5 pm a 8pm and weedends and holidays from 6 pm to 8 pm.
