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The Collector is Presente was one of the proposals of this Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023, a new appointment in the galleries of Barcelona, which for a weekend offered a special agenda as a result of the collaboration between collectors and gallery owners.
For this edition of Artnou 2023, we have returned to the good brainstorming meetings with our allies Abe and Artnou, and we have selected two artists and a curator to delve into their universes and share these reflections and proposals with the GRAF community.
There is no English version of this interview available, you can go to the CAT or CAST version.
There are many topics to tackle, that may concern various XarxaProd projects, but we have chosen 4, and we have called upon 4 people who we trust that by bringing them into their own terrain, would manage to sharpen their point sufficiently.
To examine the interrelationships that creative production spaces establish and enable between contemporary practice, the audiences they work with and their immediate context, means addressing the very nature and purpose of these structures.
As I recall my travels, and the residencies among them, I think of the contradictions we get caught up in every day, and I’m still unsure if a residency can offer you anything more than a trip as a tourist staying for a limited period of time in a hotel can offer you.