Shared fiction - GAZE‑OFF at Espai Souvenir
Shared fiction, a collaboration between GAZE‑OFF and Espai Souvenir, is a collective exhibition and an activation device. It brings together situations, gestures, actions, images, words and encounters through which reality is not presented as a given object, but as something that is produced at the intersection of bodies, time and space.
The proposals by Gaia Renis, Javier Peñafiel, Jean-Marie Reynier, Prisca Groh, Al Fadhil, Mirko Smerdel, Nuno Cera and Fabrizio Contarino unfold as interdependent fragments. Some remain, others appear intermittently; some are observed, others are listened to, crossed, or remembered. The exhibition is not limited to contemplation, but is constructed through a series of activations that continuously modify its form and rhythm.
The exhibition privileges a lateral gaze and displaced attention: not as a way of seeing better, but as a way of not fixing. Against the frontality of the screen and the expectation of a stable experience, Fiction Shared proposes a space where the visible coexists with the absent, the explicit with the suggested, the anticipated with what happens.
Here, the image appears as one presence among actions, voices and gestures. At times it settles, at others it dissolves or shifts, activating relationships that do not depend on the object, but on the connections generated between works, artists, visitors and space.
The result is not a unified narrative or a closed reading, but a shared fiction constructed in real time: a field of intensities in which each visitor articulates their own path, and where meaning emerges provisionally, at the intersection of multiple gazes, bodies and experiences.
Curatorial text: Fabrizio Contarino
The project will be activated through a series of scheduled performances:
“Diaspora slides and Noora Basra” by Al Fadhil on the opening day;
“Il riposo nel giardino del poeta” by Prisca Groh, on the opening day;
“Giorni senza pioggia” by Mirko Smerdel on Saturday, January 31 at 1:00 p.m.;
“¿Qué condiciona tus ficciones?” by Javier Peñafiel on Saturday, February 7 at 1:00 p.m. on the day of the finissage.
