Galeria Adhoc
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Rua Joaquin Loriga, 9 36203
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Libia Castro & Olafur Eliasson
dal 5/11/2008 al 12/12/2008

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5/11/2008

Libia Castro & Olafur Eliasson

Galeria Adhoc, Vigo

Various works made in the past few years in which they reflect upon urban space, identity and the effects of globalisation.


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Libia Castro (Madrid, 1970) and Ólafur Ólafsson (Reykjavik, Island, 1973) have been working in collaboration since 1996 and have established their centre of work in the cities of Rotterdam and Berlin. They have taken part in important exhibitions developed in different institutions: Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Akureyri Art Museum, Island; Video Festival, Beijing, China; Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and in The Centre for Contemporary Art Istanbul, Turkey. They have taken part in group exhibitions in New York, Paris, the Venice Biennale, Miami and the Havana Biennale.

Especially noteworthy in 2008 are their solo exhibitions in Berlin's Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, the Reykjavik Art Museum and above all, their intervention in Manifesta 7, European Biennale of Contemporary Art which takes place in the summer months, each time in a different country. This year it took place in Italy where Libia and Olafur showed their public installation Uterus Flags, in the town of Rovereto, and the video Caregivers, with great success.

In the exhibition in galería adhoc they will present various works made in the past few years in which they reflect upon urban space, identity and the effects of globalisation.

For the first time in Spain they will be showing the public installation Uterus Flags in Rúa Joaquín Loriga from the 6th of November to the 13th of December, as an extension to the exhibition. The project has been produced specifically for this exhibition and is a new version in different colours of interventions previously made for various European cities: Hasselt, Belgium; Reykjavik, Island; Rovereto, Italy... The bunting is inspired by heraldry and party bunting, they show the silhouette of female genital organs: womb, fallopian tubes, ovaries and vagina. During the exhibition four rows of bunting will be placed across Rúa Joaquín Loriga, forming part of the architecture and life of the city. In the gallery, the video Mpia's Story will be shown, which forms part of the project Avant-Garde Citizens, which focuses on the growing situation of migratory conflict, reflecting on the tensions between the capitalist globalised world, freedom of movement and the consequent and growing tendency of nations to protect their territories from undocumented immigration - the friction between belonging and exclusion. This work is made up from different videos - portraits which gather together the testimony of refugees or undocumented immigrants who have been in detention or deportation centres. Recently Libia and Ólafur have begun to expand this project to include activists and in the future they aim to include others involved with the theme.

The portraits are taken in one shot, situated in exterior and urban landscapes. The one portrayed - Mpia in galeria adhoc - tells his story, is the subject, reporter and object of the image.

Photographs from two different series will also be exhibited: 115 Esmeralda Bajos, begun in 2003 in Havana as part of the project "... no te creas cosas" presented at the Havana Biennale. The series records different types of signs and texts found on the urban space of the Vadado neighbourhood and portrays two families with which we live and work.

The other photographs are from the series Demoliciones y Excavaciones, 2002 Málaga. They show the area of the old neighbourhood in the centre of the city that is suffering from a process of gentrification and speculation of land and property, which has provoked during decades the bad use of the space and social and urban deterioration. The series came to life as part of the project "un elemento mas" in which the artists created in Alternativa Siglo 21 a place for meeting, discussion and reflection on the situation of the aforementioned zone.

Galeria Adhoc
Rua Joaquin Loriga, 9 - Vigo

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Libia Castro & Olafur Eliasson
dal 5/11/2008 al 12/12/2008

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