Presentació de LIO (La impremta oberta) i de la publicació Aparece, aparecer, de Valentina Alvarado Matos i Carlos Vásquez Méndez

La impremta oberta (The Open Press) (LIO) is a project that originated from a collaboration between two Girona-based cultural cooperatives – Coop ny ny (Mieres) and Cultural Rizoma (Celrà) — with the aim of promoting a platform dedicated to the production and dissemination of publications related to contemporary thought and creation. LIO is a printing press that specialises in risography, a production space open to the community and a publishing project.

The last of these, under the name of Ressò, alternates between essays and artistic creation, between live arts and visual arts, leading to works that reflect and operate from critical practices situated in the present day. Ressò is structured around two main lines: one focused on publishing essayistic or reflective texts revolving around issues affecting artistic practice, and the other focused on producing the projects of artists that are carried out in a publication format.

Aparece, aparecer by Valentina Alvarado Matos and Carlos Vásquez Méndez is the second publication issued in the expanded essays series initiated by Ressò with the book Interrogar el acompañar by Carolina Campos. Aparece, aparecer offers a visual and textual approach to the working methodology that is shared by the two artists, centred on ‘exercises’ of translating words into images and vice versa. At the same time, it raises questions that lie at the heart of their joint artistic projects: the relationship between image and word, the performative and haptic nature of filmmaking, and working with the materiality of analogue cinema, to name but a few.

Aparece, aparecer engages in dialogue with the exhibitions el otro aquí (the other here) and totalmente rostro, produced by the Centre d’Art La Capella and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in 2024.