Palma de Mallorca,
A long-term production, composed of changing devices that do not decline, but rather generate valid modifications, and developed in very diverse media among which it is difficult to choose dominant techniques and in which contamination between one piece and another is constant. This is the work of Concha Jerez, hence it is difficult to articulate her career according to defined periods and themes, although one of them is, without a doubt, memory (written, self-censored, individual and collective) and she has made constant references to the past. , forgetting, remembering and the representation of silence. Also to ambiguous words, those without precise meaning or that depend on others, and to erasures, one of the distinctive features of his work on acetate or newspaper paper; Another of the common features of his career has been the collaborations with multiple creators, the continuous mutation and the deepening of surveillance through electronic channels.
A pioneer of conceptual and sound art, this Canarian author has proposed us time and again to reconsider our way of being in the world and learn new ways of looking, given that the aforementioned self-censorship, in her opinion, has only grown in time in relation to multiple political, social or work circumstances. Until next January 8, the main floor of Casal Solleric dedicates the exhibition “Inter-actions” to him, which focuses on a specific formal aspect of his work, although as we say this is inseparable from others: his performative projects. From a fundamentally critical will, because Jerez very consciously distances itself from any epic purpose, from conventional judgments of taste and the recourse to emotions, the pieces derived from them are presented to us here as interventions in specific spaces of this Mallorcan center, as interference intended to generate in the viewer an estrangement from their surroundings that each individual will delve into in their own way.
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Admirer of both Fluxus and its creation that fused genres, from the absence of commercial or institutional pretensions, and of John Cage, who discovered in the phenomenon of silence the musical equivalent of nothingness and reaffirmed his idea that all aspects of art were equal in hierarchy, Jerez embarked five decades ago on an aesthetic path in which time has played a crucial role; in order to bear witness to these actions, since the first one, which he carried out in 1984 in Alboorg (Denmark), he developed them publicly or, when they led to works linked to the private sphere or intimacy, documenting them in photographs or videos.
This exhibition, curated by Fernando Castro Flórez and Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta, is the first focused on this aspect of his career, and also his first on this island, and is, therefore, very much a retrospective of the concerns that, to Through action, he has displayed: from the manipulation of the media to the trivialization installed in everyday life, the need to maintain a certain belief in utopia, resistance to oblivion and forgetfulness or the danger of self-censorship.
Ultimately, these installations, selected in order to establish ties with the Casal Solleric rooms, raise the legitimacy of interfering in the media, of not falling into more or less nihilistic or cynical positions and of standing up, with an attitude of courage that is both ethical and aesthetic, to the unwanted drifts of the present. We will find obsessive following of certain news, meditations on the dismantling of some political structures and beliefs, testimonies about utopias, visualizations of the limits in which we live or journeys through landscapes of conflicts and exclusions. The artist claims that memory is essential to reactivate criticism in turbulent times and remembers that we must avoid, through forgetting, history repeating itself as a farce.
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Concha Jerez. “Inter-actions”
CASAL SOLLERIC
Passeig del Born, 27
Palma de Mallorca
From September 21, 2024 to January 8, 2025