It All Started with a Salmon 3.–10.10.2014 XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, 00100 Helsinki Avoinna: ti–pe 12–20, la 12–18. / Open: Tue–Fri 12–20, Sat 12–18. Avajaiset perjantaina 3.10.2014 klo 18–21. Tervetuloa, välkommen! / Opening on Friday 3.10.2014 at 18–21. Welcome, bienvenidos!
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Andrea Gómez Carlota Juncosa Jonathan Millán Laura Llaneli Mireia C. Saladrigues Pep Vidal Sebastián Cabrera A group of restless minds that one day shared a smoked salmon from Finland got in touch with me, so to explain what they were up to while probably looking for an outsider point of view. They wanted to talk about a project that they didn’t know how would it go and that they didn’t want it to be a mere wish list. The trip was planned and the tickets bought, there was the will to make an exhibition abroad when it is like an "honour" and a privilege for those who achieved an artistic trajectory, and it existed the possibility of setting up an exhibition in a very particular space. This is how one Monday we set up a meeting and we ate another salmon at Hangar. This is an open centre for research and artistic production that helps creators by offering work spaces and services, like access to material and technical resources, but also promotes an experimental and free context for sharing knowledge and thinking. Our meeting was infused in that “out of rules” spirit and an in this absence of objectives – at least from the theoretical point of view – although it was full of the enthusiasm required for making projects shaped by unknown paths and imposture. After our talk it was clear that more than an exhibition, this show was about to be part of a process that started with a dinner party, got the shape of a trip which will materialize itself into a one week exhibition, and it will go back to where it came from: each one’s home. Inside a loop of indecision, watching the time going by, and getting towards nowhere, Sonia Fernández Pan passed by chance by Hangar. She sat where we were with the excuse of having a break, smoking a cigarette and leaving as soon as she would be done. Talking about this and that with the will of going back to our work as soon as Sonia would have finished her cigarette, she came up with the title of the project. From that moment on, it was not only about an exhibition but a process where anyone could participate as far as contributed with something. With seven artists and a consulted curator, the project starts with seven artists and two curators willing to take the whole advantage of this experience, working on pieces that will take shape during the following days. After adopting as working process a kind of chain work like an "exquisite corpse", it seems – also judging by the images sent by Mireia from Helsinki – that the exhibition room will exhibit pieces which will react on the space itself. It's not any kind of space, it's two meters high and the floor looks like a checkerboard…
– Text by Frederic Montornés
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Andrea Gómez. Visual artist. Her recent work has been focused on the relations between digital and material communication. www.andreagomez.info Carlota Juncosa. student of philosophy and drawer. She is interested in playing with words, angry people and miserable attitudes in general. http://todoaquiabajo.blogspot.com/ Jonathan Millán. Artist. His work includes drawing, video and sculpture. Existentialist and immature, he tries to find his singularity through self-observation. He can also become very funny. www.jonathanmillan.com Laura Llaneli. Sound and visual artist. Her work explores the relationship between sound-music experience and production on the one hand, and contemporary visual art devices and practices on the other. www.laurallaneli.com Mireia C. Saladrigues. Visual artist and researcher. Her interests are focused on the study of audiences, channels of reception, and the conditions that spectators encounter. www.mireiasaladrigues.com Pep Vidal. Visual artist and mathematician. He works with infinitesimal changes - really small changes- which occur every time and everywhere. www.pepvidal.com Sebastián Cabrera. Visual artist. His concerns about image and representation are mainly carried out through painting and video. www.sebastiancabrera.net
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