Fragments

María Florencia Cid Berdeal / Helena Laguna Bastante / Nieves de Montserrat/Maria Oliveras Gregorio /Natalia Ortega Orozco / Ana Pérez García/ Yaneth Rivas / María Rojo Fernández-Shaw / Sofía Romeo Gascón / Denís Taboada González / Violeta Vieytes Vivares

Exhibition of works produced as part of the Master’s Degree in Production and Artistic Research of the University of Barcelona’s Art and Intermedia Contexts (ACI) line, held in collaboration with La Capella and Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació.

Is an isolated part of a thing still the same thing? What fragment, portion or particle of an element remains the same element?

If we assign the value of unity (1) to what we call a thing or element and successively fragment it (1/xn), we will have to repeat the action ad infinitum to get a result that tends towards zero, even though this value will forever remain out of reach. If we agree that the value of zero implies that the thing or element has transmuted into a new material state, with the option to fragment, cut or divide, the property of unity is never completely lost. From this perspective, no matter how many fragments of an original artwork we create, they will always retain constituent parts of it.

This collection of artworks, presented here as ‘fragments’, captures what is residual and discarded. It conjures ideas of waste, banality, fragmentation, interdependence, precariousness, ruin, disappearance and nostalgia. All are intrinsic consequences of working with matter and its properties. This includes matter and space, the body as matter, matter as memory, patriarchy and gender configured as matter and matter as a trigger of desire, as well as matter in motion, transition, decomposition and political action.