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28/9/2011

The End Is Where We Start From

Fundacio Joan Miro', Barcelona

Curated by Karin Campbell

Stories, told through words, pictures or gestures, may be the most enduring form of communication known to humans. More than simply a listing of events, a story can transcend barriers of cultural diversity, geography and time period to explain how or why something came to be. In the process, personal and collective experiences intersect, and events, whether current or historical, factual or fictional, are given meaning. The projects being presented in The End Is Where We Start From all feature stories that have in some way grown from the artists’ personal life experiences. Representing a range of media and working processes, these projects reflect the artists’ unique, and at times unconventional, approaches to constructing a narrative.

The title of this series is taken from a T.S. Eliot poem called “Little Gidding” written in the 1940s. In the poem’s final section, Eliot makes a case for the generative potential of an ending:

What we call the beginning is often the end

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

The end is where we start from.

The decision to present an artwork is itself a kind of “end,” representing an artist’s decision to share an object or idea with other people. In this cycle, the artists open the possibility, even the necessity, for the visiting public to breathe life into their narratives by actively engaging with the works. Taking many forms throughout the five exhibitions, this engagement begins with questions the projects ask of their audiences, either explicitly or implicitly. What are the different roles that audience members can play within a museum exhibition and how might the public affect or shape the life or afterlife of an art project? How do visitors’ actions, belief systems, and personal histories relate to those brought forward in an exhibition? In what ways can one’s experience of an exhibition extend beyond just the act of looking? Audiences entering Espai 13 will be invited to watch, listen, read, and move through the space and in doing so will have the opportunity to chart new beginnings from each story’s “end.”

The artists featured in this cycle are: Mireia c. Saladrigues, Daniela Ortiz, Mariona Moncunill, Alex Reynolds and Mireia Sallarès.

Image: Mireia c. Saladrigues

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