Arriba, abajo, al centro y adentro is a group exhibition curated by Olga Sureda and Tai Lomas showing the projects developed by artists Nadoe (South Korea), Alberto Alejandro Rodríguez (Cuba), Ana Karen Rodríguez (Mexico) and Laura Such (United Kingdom) in the framework of Nectar Artist-in-Residence Program.
In collaboration with Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture and within the context of the emerging art festival Art Nou Primera Visió, NectART residency program is based on a call for project proposals - under the urban/rural theme - which allows resident artists to deepen their artistic and creative process in a rural environment and connect their practice with the Barcelona art scene.
This exhibition invites us to reflect on how art and culture can be used as an element to question the relationship between the rural and the urban, where a reunion between the city and the countryside may be the key to society’s transition towards a more sustainable future.
In Arriba, abajo, al centro y adentro, the artists explore and question the assumptions made about rural life and culture, bringing their personal vision through their artistic practice based on the everyday experience of the rural-urban and natural-industrial binary. The projects by the four artists are based on their cultural and creative identities and personal motivations, which interconnect with each other and are inspired by Nectar's environment and their relationship with it.
Alberto Alejandro Rodríguez develops a practice that explores the relationship between architecture and landscape through its history and memory and - paying special attention to architectures that have been left aside in society and become obsolete - works with the traces and materials found in these places creating poetic and visual representations.
Laura Such explores sculptorically how we connect to ourselves, to each other and to nature and culture while reflecting on the human conditions and limitations reflected in the society we live in through playful, rhetorical and reflective language to address personal and global issues with the use of contemporary and traditional materials that create conflicts and oppositions - a sort of visual oxymoron.
Nadoe's project raises questions about the value and function of the home in our times from the emotional and in the urban-rural context. For Nadoe, the concept of home is dynamic, abstract and subjective, and beyond its definition, the artist seeks, from the unknown and foreign, the elements that provide the physical protection and emotional rest that for her represents "home", returning to its primitive and essential spirit.
The work of Ana Karen Rodriguez starts from the observation and interaction with the environment that surrounds her, finding phenomena that go through it and through her, phenomena that belong to a symbolic, global and industrialized economy and violence. Combining form, materiality and color, the artist poses possible scenarios and reinterpretations that build, intervene, fix and extend through her personal experience and her intimate relationship with the place.
In collaboration with Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture and within the context of the emerging art festival Art Nou Primera Visió, NectART residency program is based on a call for project proposals - under the urban/rural theme - which allows resident artists to deepen their artistic and creative process in a rural environment and connect their practice with the Barcelona art scene.
This exhibition invites us to reflect on how art and culture can be used as an element to question the relationship between the rural and the urban, where a reunion between the city and the countryside may be the key to society’s transition towards a more sustainable future.
In Arriba, abajo, al centro y adentro, the artists explore and question the assumptions made about rural life and culture, bringing their personal vision through their artistic practice based on the everyday experience of the rural-urban and natural-industrial binary. The projects by the four artists are based on their cultural and creative identities and personal motivations, which interconnect with each other and are inspired by Nectar's environment and their relationship with it.
Alberto Alejandro Rodríguez develops a practice that explores the relationship between architecture and landscape through its history and memory and - paying special attention to architectures that have been left aside in society and become obsolete - works with the traces and materials found in these places creating poetic and visual representations.
Laura Such explores sculptorically how we connect to ourselves, to each other and to nature and culture while reflecting on the human conditions and limitations reflected in the society we live in through playful, rhetorical and reflective language to address personal and global issues with the use of contemporary and traditional materials that create conflicts and oppositions - a sort of visual oxymoron.
Nadoe's project raises questions about the value and function of the home in our times from the emotional and in the urban-rural context. For Nadoe, the concept of home is dynamic, abstract and subjective, and beyond its definition, the artist seeks, from the unknown and foreign, the elements that provide the physical protection and emotional rest that for her represents "home", returning to its primitive and essential spirit.
The work of Ana Karen Rodriguez starts from the observation and interaction with the environment that surrounds her, finding phenomena that go through it and through her, phenomena that belong to a symbolic, global and industrialized economy and violence. Combining form, materiality and color, the artist poses possible scenarios and reinterpretations that build, intervene, fix and extend through her personal experience and her intimate relationship with the place.
