The exhibition The Public, first activity of the Lorca Centre
The opening of the exhibition The Public, curated by Virginia Torrente, on Friday, September 18 started the activity programme of the Federico García Lorca Centre.
21.09.2015
The opening of the exhibition 'The Public', curated by Virginia Torrente, on Friday, September 18 started the activity programme of the Federico García Lorca Centre. The Centre lends its space to a group of contemporary artists who approach space in an intelligent, intuitive way offering us an excellent exercise in dialogue, reflection and experimentation.
The show is not only present in the exhibition room, but also in other parts of the building, providing an introduction to the public. The site specific creations combine field research on the generic concept of the public and the citizenry; the presence and relevance of this building’s architecture, Granada and its history; the comings and goings of local residents; and the overarching and omnipresent memory of Federico García Lorca, manifested as a connection with the public from an artistic, social, historical and political point of view, yet also purely aesthetic and emotional.
Spectators are given the chance to discover the oeuvre of the artists featured in this show through different languages and formats, and at the same time they are also invited to form an opinion of those works.
A free publication in newspaper format written by Virginia Torrente and Miguel Albero accompanies this exhibition.
Roger Bernat, renowned since 2008 for creating pieces in which the members of the audience take centre stage becoming the protagonists. “Spectators enter a setup that invited them to obey or conspire and, no matter what, to pay with their own body and commit themselves wholeheartedly”.
To disappear, to dissipate, to vanish, The Public is not only one of the Lorca’s last works, but it also constantly moves along the threshold of death and disappearance. Doors, screens, tombs and walls swallow up, resuscitate or transform the characters. This time, Roger Bernat invokes Lorca’s play in order to make the audience disappear, as the characters of the Lorca's work do, disappearing turning into horses.
Garcia Lorca Centre was opened last 29 July and its equipment and activities plan are funded with 4 million euros from the EEA Grants.