Exhibitions
Estadi de fluïdesa
Exhibition by Núria Nia curated by Mercè Alsina
Exteriors and fireplace of Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts. Carrer d’Enric Prat de la Riba, 77, 08401 Granollers, Barcelona
From October 19 to November 26
Timetable
| Friday | 17:30-20:00 |
| Saturday | 11:00–14:00 and 17:30-20:00 |
| Sunday | 11:00–14:00 |
Based on 4 photographs by Josep Bosch i Plans, which are kept in the Municipal Archive of Granollers, specifically the portraits of the 30s by Joan Vilalta, Antònia Puig, Maria García and Antoni Jonch Cuspinera; Núria Nia tackles the expressive mechanisms of human communication and its ups and downs in the video installation “Estadi de fluïdesa.”
In her video essay, Nia animates the faces captured by the camera nearly a hundred years ago with her own micro-expressions, movements that are universal, involuntary and last less than two seconds. Thus, Nia considers whether it is possible to transfer this level of communicative complexity to avatars or images of the past and whether virtual representations could react emotionally at the speed that humans do, or whether one day they will be able to faithfully show the reflection of the psyche of those they represent or whether they will be a field for performative experimentation itself.
Núria Nia
Núria Nia is an artist trained in film, digital art and communication and a PhD student in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She works mainly from the audiovisual medium in combination with other artistic forms such as transmedia environments, performance or installation activating the possibilities of the mixture of diverse contexts and practices that nurture research on topics such as digital bodies, digital work, the image-screen, the performed archive and collective thought.
Mercè Alsina
Mercè Alsina (Barcelona, 1966) is a doctor in Art History, independent curator and journalist. It has a long history in the organization and management of cultural events and exhibitions. She has produced an extensive production of journalistic materials for the written press and television, as well as documentaries.
Among the research topics she has researched are the impact of globality on artistic productions and their circulation, questions of identity and historical representation, speculative materialism and the nature of objects, the video essay as a practice of resistance, among others. She is a member of the Catalan and International Association of Art Critics (ACCA and AICA) since 1990. Between 2003 and 2015 she was a member of the board of directors of the Catalan section as secretary. Since 2019 she has been an advisor and part of the programming team of the Festival of cinema, photography and new media Panoràmic (Barcelona/Granollers). Since 2017 she has been co-curator of the contemporary art cycle Santcorneliarts, in the Chapel of Sant Corneli, Museum of Cardedeu.