negarràk-negarrà, by Josu Bilbao

With negarràk-negarrà, Josu Bilbao suggests an exercise in rejecting a subrogated role in which it would seem admissible to speak from here but not of here. What he proposes is an exchange of the place of enunciation similar to the change that occurs in writing when the third person is abandoned and the first person adopted instead. It is to address a localisation by taking a stance. Straddling the method and the motive, the exhibition is a test of the possibility of opening up Espai 13 to the outside by means of an intervention delimited in size, space and time about some air vents originally designed by the building’s architect, Josep Lluís Sert, and which at some point were blocked up in order to increase the surface area in the room that could be given over to museographical purposes. For the artist, this operation involves bringing this place closer to a more contemporary, more porous, capillary artistic sensibility and receptivity.