Façana Foto Festa Futur Fideus
May 9–September 24, 2024
Plaça dels Àngels, 1
08001 Barcelona
Spain
macba@macba.cat
Everything can happen differently. A game involving a blend of objects, ideas, images, sounds and flavours leads to mayhem, multiplying the relations between reality and the imagination. The outcome is a succession of specific scenes in which the real time of the narrative and that of its display come together.
Jordi Colomer (Barcelona, 1962) addresses the scenographic dimension of his first sculpture-objects in which he was already exploring the materiality of fiction. When he took this same interest out onto the street, certain tools and working strategies started to recur: mobility, provisionality, the popular imaginary, utopian illusions, humour and collaboration. The result is a fabulation that becomes political by asserting that we can discuss communal life even as it is being imagined and pursued.
The exhibition is not structured chronologically in order to emphasise its organic character, in which various places, narratives, materials and characters overlap. The various projects co-exist in an environment in which simultaneity, fragility and the diverse routes are heightened in a kind of mise-en-scène typical of fairs and other makeshift edifices. Just as the monument contains within it its own ruin, the temporary harbours and renews the potential that must shake our ways of life.
Exhibition curated by Martí Peran.
Publication
The publication Jordi Colomer. Façana Foto Festa Futur Fideus considers the life and work of the artist, illustrated by sixty works spanning the period from the late 1980s to the present day. It also features essays by Martí Peran, Benedetta Casini, Ignasi Duarte, Carolina Olivares and Núria Gómez Gabriel that cover various aspects of Colomer’s practice. It is published in two editions, one in Catalan and the other in both Spanish and English.
Guided tours: Fridays at 6pm
Visit here for the whole programme. There will be some delocalized activities in La INFINITA (Av. Carrilet 237. 3rd Floor. L’Hospitalet de Llobregat). For further information please, visit here.
